Healthy Workforce

We know that chronic diseases are significant drivers of health care costs, and that the majority of American employees have at least one chronic condition. Health management initiatives, including workplace health promotion/wellness programs, help employees live healthier lives while at the same time improving employers’ bottom lines through reduced health costs and increased productivity. With this in mind, employee health programs and workplace health promotion programs should be viewed and managed as a strategic investment to be maximized rather than an expense to be minimized.

— From the preface of “Healthy Workforce 2010 and Beyond,” a publication of the Partnership for Prevention

Maine QIP and Wellness Program Information

Meaningful Use

We aren’t politicians, but at MaineQIP we think that the basic purpose behind this Federal rule is to use electronic medical records to improve patient care, not just as a substitute for paper. This can mean saving money, or attaining a national certification, or setting and measuring your own goals, or focusing on the at-risk patients in your practice.

Polly and Bill have a wealth of experience in using data from the Allscripts Touchworks EMR for a variety of purposes. We have provided extracts for the CMS PQRI reporting program, Anthem Insights, Bridges to Excellence and for several grants. The reports that we have built – from patient care to audit to practice management – are available to the users by subscription or on an ad hoc basis, using SQL Server Reporting Services.

“Meaningful use” may be new to the Federal government, but we have been creatively supporting meaningful uses of electronic medical information all along.

* News about Meaningful Use Rules

* CMS Meaningful Use Incentive Program