Rochester RHIO launches MyAlerts service

MyAlerts is the alerts solution for a practice or care manager working within a larger health system, or for a clinical provider who needs to carefully monitor critical events for active or high-risk patients. It is a service that has been developed to meet specific clinical use cases and allows for the customization of clinical workflows. With MyAlerts, providers can identify a list of consented patients. After a list-based feed is created, providers then receive alert notifications about these patients for easier tracking of critical events.

MyAlerts can be:

• delivered through DIRECT messaging, or
• integrated through an EHR vendor or system.

To learn more about MyAlerts, or to further customize the basic RHIO Alerts service, contact your Deployment Team Coordinator, or call Rochester RHIO’s Customer Support Center at 1-877-865-RHIO (7446).

HIPAA training continues in the fall!

Our 2016 online training series continues in the fall with HIPAA webinars led by RHIO's Privacy and Compliance Officer Amy S. Warner, Esq. MBA. Select a date and sign up for a session today! 

Download the Community Measures Crosswalk

As highlighted by the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) in May 2016, the “…chaos of the current healthcare measurement environment” calls for healthcare providers to report hundreds of measures to government, commercial payers, accreditation agencies, professional societies, registries, and other organizations. While groups like HANYS work to lobby for a more consolidated approach to metrics and reporting, the RHIO wants to assist member organizations today in maintaining a consolidated, updated location for metrics issued by various entities. 

Download: 2016 Community Measures Crosswalk [Release Date: July 1, 2016]

The data provided in the Community Measures Crosswalk begins with the CMS Master List, issued by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. We have started the process of identifying those measures that practices in our community have a need to access by adding tabs for MACRA, PCMH, FQHC, HEDIS, GRIPA, and more. Over time, new tabs will be added for individual payer programs, as well as other organizations or programs that issue metrics determined to be useful to the healthcare community. We anticipate each tab to be updated quarterly, or more often, as significant metrics updates are published. 

This information source will be a living set of documents. Comments and suggestions should be sent to: cmc@grrhio.org.

The Community Measures Crosswalk Workgroup is a subgroup of the Rochester PCMH Collaborative. Members include:

• Deb Blanchard, RRHS
• Diane Dale, Canisteo Valley Family Medicine
• Cynthia Korpal, URMC
• Gloria Hitchcock, Rochester RHIO
• Martha Osowski, URMC
• Nancy Buffum-Herman, FLPPS

Want to join the Community Measures Crosswalk initiative? Want to contribute information? Email: cmc@grrhio.org.