Alaska eHealth Network’s (AeHN) offers technical services to eligible priority primary care providers (PPCP), Critical Access Hospitals (CAH), and rural hospitals, for training and support services to assist in adopting electronic health records (EHRs) and to become meaningful users of EHRs and health information technology (HIT). Meaningful use of EHRs reflects use by providers to achieve significant improvements in patient care.
The REC can support participants with direct and individualized on-site and/or remote technical assistance with:
- An assigned AeHN HIT point of contact
- Security and privacy risk assessment tool
- Meaningful use understanding
- EHR practice readiness assessment
- Setting EHR goals
- Practice profile
- Office staff survey
- Workflow process mapping
- Review assessments
- Define EHR goals
- Identify target improvement opportunities
- Discuss change management strategies
- Set meaningful use goals
- Conduct post go-live review of implementation process
- Conduct meaningful use and EHR implementation assessment
- Perform meaningful use gap analysis
- Conduct meaningful use reporting analysis
- Post-implementation electronic workflow analysis
- Utilize project tools and optimize shared learning
- Review EHR impact analysis
- Refine electronic workflow for efficiency and meaningful use
- Identify additional care management process improvement opportunities
- With more than 500 Alaskan participants throughout the State of Alaska, AeHN’s REC is the recognized and trusted advisor to provide your practice / hospital with technical assistance, implementation guidance, and meaningful use expertise.
- Act now to become an AeHN REC participant! Annual AeHN participation dues are currently waived through March 2013.* To learn more please contact your AeHN participation consultant at:
AeHN Consultants | info@ak-ehealth.org | Phone (866) 966-9030
The scope of technical assistance, customized to address the needs of your organization includes the following.
I. ASSESSMENT & PLANNING
Conducting Assessments
EHR Planning for Clinics and Hospitals
II. EHR IMPLEMENTATION, QUALITY REPORTING, AND E-PRESCRIBING
III. MEANINGFUL USE
MU Evaluation
Workflow Improvement
IV. NEXT STEPS
