“Allscripts TouchWorks is a great EHR, but is lacking in reporting.” This sentiment has been expressed over and over by the people who use it daily. There are a thousand and one reports needed to deal with the wide variety of measures, and the differences between the reports can be subtle enough that a single […]
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Allscripts Analytics Platform – Do You Have the Latest News?
As Meaningful Use, PQRS, and CPCI have developed over the past few years, so have their reporting capabilities. The race to achieve MU-required goals as well as a pattern of late-in-the-year Final Rule updates from Congress have required vendors to rapidly update reporting algorithms. For Allscripts, what began as the Stimulus Reporting Portal with v11.2.3 migrated to the more robust Allscripts Analytics Portal (AAP) in v11.4.1. In keeping with the ever-changing landscape, AAP 15.2 was deployed to Production on June 9, 2015. There are the usual logic changes, however at a higher number than seen in the past. In fact, there were enough significant issues during UAT testing that this update was delayed for several few weeks. This latest version brings numerous logic, value set, and even workflow changes – 21 pages of calculation changes to be exact! Whenever there..
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New to TouchWorks 11.5: Electronic Prior Authorization (ePA)
Allscripts offers several new enhancements for Allscripts TouchWorks EHR™ version 11.5, one of which is Electronic Prior Authorization (ePA) for medications. When enabled, ePA serves two main functions: providers can send prior authorizations (PA) for medications to a patient’s pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), and can also receive requests for more information, approvals, and denials electronically from a patient’s PBM. Before looking at how ePA has been incorporated into Allscripts Touchworks EHR™, let’s take a look at some of the benefits of enabling ePA. Your organization won’t be constantly filling out paper forms for PAs Considering that 90% of PA requests require phone or fax[1], substantially less time will be spent waiting on faxes, sending faxes, and making phone calls It will increase physician satisfaction, as 91% of them say they are dissatisfied with PAs[2] It will provide significant cost reductions, as PAs..
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Optimization: Is it all about the timing?
You know that saying, “Timing is everything?” With the torrent of change that has hit healthcare, it seems as if the timing has not felt right for many organizations to attempt optimization. Why optimize if we cannot predict and factor in the next change? Optimization can come in 31 flavors!, our first blog in this series, introduced the methodology to manage the diversity of an optimization project by breaking it down into incremental, achievable goals. In this second article of the series, let’s discuss a real scenario. St. Charles Medical Group, located in the Pacific Northwest, collaborated with Galen Healthcare Solutions to define its optimization approach. This organization’s business strategy aligned with the current industry trend of acquiring smaller practices, which meant its long-term success depended upon a well-documented, metric-driven, and, more importantly, repeatable processes that met the needs of..
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TouchWorks 15.1: Vital Signs Enhancement
With the release of Allscripts TouchWorksTM EHR 15.1, there are quite a few enhancements geared toward improving the user experience in areas such as clinical documentation and administration. One specific experience improvement can be found within vital signs entry. System administrators can now determine which vital signs are required fields. This change will highlight mandatory fields in yellow, and require all necessary information to be entered before users are able to commit and finalize the clinical documentation. Benefits of this improvement will help ensure all necessary information is captured and in real time. This change can also be seen while in the Note Authoring workspace (NAW) when a vitals panel with required vital signs is included in that note. As you can see from the image below, the table of contents will display Vitals in pale yellow. Also notice that..
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TouchWorks 15.1: Note Enhancements
Have you seen the news about Allscripts TouchWorksTM 15.1? Wow! There are some great enhancements with V11 notes. Included in this is the ability for providers to create personal text macros and insert those macros into V11 notes, as well as many other areas in TouchWorksTM. Another great new feature is the ability to run note output progress checks to determine if a minimum level of documentation has been recorded for specific note outputs. Additionally, one of our favorites is the required fields enhancement, which enables organizations to recommend orders or require providers or staff to complete specific items when documenting clinical services. These are great options when trying to educate providers and users on necessary ICD-10 documentation. To learn more about this and many other new features, please join us for a free 15.1 note enhancement webcast on January 29, 2016 at 2..
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TouchWorks 15.1: Immunization Enhancements
As we continue to explore TouchWorksTM 15.1, we see that Allscripts has provided users with new options for the Immunization Series. One of these enhancements allows the total number of immunizations administered to display in parentheses (5) next to the immunization name. This feature enables the user to view the total number of immunizations administered for a patient in the Immunization Series grid at a glance without having to scroll through the list. Community data immunizations are included in the count before they are imported. This can be a quick reference for reviewing immunization schedules such as the Hepatitis B series, DTaP, HIB, IPV, etc. So many of these immunizations have a range of ages when they can be given. Take for example a child getting the first Hep A shot between ages 12 and 23 months; we know the second..
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TouchWorks 15.1: Allergy Status Enhancements
There are several new Allergy Status enhancements that have been delivered with TouchWorksTM 15.1 that should improve the workflows that users routinely run into throughout the day. The Allergy Status Unknown message has been renamed to Rx without Allergy Information, and there are now options to manage the allergy list from the dialog box without backing out or clicking to different tabs in the ACI. From the warning dialog box, users can now select Record NKDA and continue, Record NKA and continue, Add Allergies (which conveniently pops up a limited version of the ACI for entry with fewer clicks), or Continue without adding allergies. The Allergen Warning message is now Non-med Allergen Warning. This will allow users to quickly review and be aware of all the patient’s allergies prior to prescribing a medication, not just those listed on the Non-med Allergen..
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TouchWorks 15.1: Potential Sensitive Health Conditions
Patient privacy in an EHR is a subject at the front of everyone’s minds, patient and health care worker alike. The HIPAA Privacy Rule affords protection to all patients, and also special protection to patients with certain diagnoses or treatments for conditions, such as mental health, HIV/AIDS, or substance abuse. In an effort to provide more options for patient security around potentially sensitive health conditions, TouchWorksTM V15.1 has an added layer of security to flag patients who fit into those categories. In the Patient Profile Dialog Clinical Information, there is a new field for Potentially Sensitive Health that will flag patient charts that might contain potentially sensitive health conditions. If checked, the Available Communities in the Community Information section are all are automatically set to Not Shared. These can be manually changed to Shared if the patient provided appropriate written consent to..
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EHR Database Training Case Study
Recently, Galen had the pleasure of providing database training at a large, independent, non-profit, treatment and research center on the forefront for more than 50 years of clinical research trials. Migration to a new EHR, Allscripts Touchworks™ Enterprise EHR posed a significant challenge to the analysts in the IT Department. They needed to develop a deeper understanding of the database to identify criteria for potential clinical trial study populations. There was a need to design training that encompassed knowledge level of learners from varied roles and experience levels within the organization within one classroom environment. Galen offered database experts with not only years of expertise, but also experience with the nuances of clinical research criteria. The Database Classroom Training offered the client review of the schema, common relationships, and an overview of the major tables of the Allscripts TouchWorks™ Enterprise..
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ACE 2016
Las Vegas will gain the “Power to Connect, Learn and Innovate” August 9-11th when the Allscripts Client Experience (ACE 2016) comes to town! ACE is an annual user conference attended by thousands of Allscripts clients and industry leaders. Attendees have access to valuable educational sessions, networking and experience sharing. They also have the opportunity to hear from inspiring keynote speakers. This year Kathleen Sebelius, former Health and Human Services Secretary, will be the opening address speaker. She’ll be discussing healthcare’s present and future, as well as hosting a Q&A session. The Keynote Speaker with be Ronan Tynan, Irish tenor, recording artist, physician, and champion disabled athlete. Faced with numerous challenges throughout his well-documented life, he moves audiences like few others can. Galen will be featuring three products at ACE 2016. Our eCalcsTM which are health calculators seamlessly integrated with Allscripts TouchWorksTM. Designed as..
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Allscripts Analytics Platform – Do You Have the Latest News?
As Meaningful Use, PQRS, and CPCI have developed over the past few years, so have their reporting capabilities. The race to achieve MU-required goals as well as a pattern of late-in-the-year Final Rule updates from Congress have required vendors to rapidly update reporting algorithms. For Allscripts, what began as the Stimulus Reporting Portal with v11.2.3 migrated to the more robust Allscripts Analytics Portal (AAP) in v11.4.1. In keeping with the ever-changing landscape, AAP 15.2 was deployed to Production on June 9, 2015. There are the usual logic changes, however at a higher number than seen in the past. In fact, there were enough significant issues during UAT testing that this update was delayed for several few weeks. This latest version brings numerous logic, value set, and even workflow changes – 21 pages of calculation changes to be exact! Whenever there..
The post Allscripts Analytics Platform – Do You Have the Latest News? appeared first on The Galen Healthcare Solutions Blog.
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New to TouchWorks 11.5: Electronic Prior Authorization (ePA)
Allscripts offers several new enhancements for Allscripts TouchWorks EHR™ version 11.5, one of which is Electronic Prior Authorization (ePA) for medications. When enabled, ePA serves two main functions: providers can send prior authorizations (PA) for medications to a patient’s pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), and can also receive requests for more information, approvals, and denials electronically from a patient’s PBM. Before looking at how ePA has been incorporated into Allscripts Touchworks EHR™, let’s take a look at some of the benefits of enabling ePA. Your organization won’t be constantly filling out paper forms for PAs Considering that 90% of PA requests require phone or fax[1], substantially less time will be spent waiting on faxes, sending faxes, and making phone calls It will increase physician satisfaction, as 91% of them say they are dissatisfied with PAs[2] It will provide significant cost reductions, as PAs..
The post New to TouchWorks 11.5: Electronic Prior Authorization (ePA) appeared first on The Galen Healthcare Solutions Blog.
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Optimization: Is it all about the timing?
You know that saying, “Timing is everything?” With the torrent of change that has hit healthcare, it seems as if the timing has not felt right for many organizations to attempt optimization. Why optimize if we cannot predict and factor in the next change? Optimization can come in 31 flavors!, our first blog in this series, introduced the methodology to manage the diversity of an optimization project by breaking it down into incremental, achievable goals. In this second article of the series, let’s discuss a real scenario. St. Charles Medical Group, located in the Pacific Northwest, collaborated with Galen Healthcare Solutions to define its optimization approach. This organization’s business strategy aligned with the current industry trend of acquiring smaller practices, which meant its long-term success depended upon a well-documented, metric-driven, and, more importantly, repeatable processes that met the needs of..
The post Optimization: Is it all about the timing? appeared first on The Galen Healthcare Solutions Blog.
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TouchWorks 15.1: Vital Signs Enhancement
With the release of Allscripts TouchWorksTM EHR 15.1, there are quite a few vital signs enhancements geared toward improving the user experience in areas such as clinical documentation and administration. System administrators can now determine which vital signs are required fields. This change will highlight mandatory fields in yellow, and require all necessary information to be entered before users are able to commit and finalize the clinical documentation. Benefits of this improvement will help ensure all necessary information is captured and in real time. This change can also be seen while in the Note Authoring workspace (NAW) when a vitals panel with required vital signs is included in that note. As you can see from the image below, the table of contents will display Vitals in pale yellow. Also notice that the individual required items are highlighted in the grid. Once..
The post TouchWorks 15.1: Vital Signs Enhancement appeared first on The Galen Healthcare Solutions Blog.
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TouchWorks 15.1: Note Enhancements
Have you seen the news about Allscripts TouchWorksTM 15.1? Wow! There are some great note enhancements with V11. Included in this is the ability for providers to create personal text macros and insert those macros into V11 notes, as well as many other areas in TouchWorksTM. Another great new feature is the ability to run note output progress checks to determine if a minimum level of documentation has been recorded for specific note outputs. Additionally, one of our favorites is the required fields enhancement, which enables organizations to recommend orders or require providers or staff to complete specific items when documenting clinical services. These are great options when trying to educate providers and users on necessary ICD-10 documentation. To learn more about this and many other new features, please join us for a free 15.1 note enhancement webcast on January 29, 2016 at 2..
The post TouchWorks 15.1: Note Enhancements appeared first on The Galen Healthcare Solutions Blog.
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TouchWorks 15.1: Immunization Enhancements
As we continue to explore TouchWorksTM 15.1, we see that Allscripts has provided users with new options for the Immunization Enhancements Series. One of these enhancements allows the total number of immunizations administered to display in parentheses (5) next to the immunization name. This feature enables the user to view the total number of immunizations administered for a patient in the Immunization Series grid at a glance without having to scroll through the list. Community data immunizations are included in the count before they are imported. This can be a quick reference for reviewing immunization schedules such as the Hepatitis B series, DTaP, HIB, IPV, etc. So many of these immunizations have a range of ages when they can be given. Take for example a child getting the first Hep A shot between ages 12 and 23 months; we know the..
The post TouchWorks 15.1: Immunization Enhancements appeared first on The Galen Healthcare Solutions Blog.
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TouchWorks 15.1: Allergy Status Enhancements
There are several new Allergy Status enhancements that have been delivered with TouchWorksTM 15.1 that should improve the workflows that users routinely run into throughout the day. The Allergy Status Unknown message has been renamed to Rx without Allergy Information, and there are now options to manage the allergy list from the dialog box without backing out or clicking to different tabs in the ACI. From the warning dialog box, users can now select Record NKDA and continue, Record NKA and continue, Add Allergies (which conveniently pops up a limited version of the ACI for entry with fewer clicks), or Continue without adding allergies. The Allergen Warning message is now Non-med Allergen Warning. This will allow users to quickly review and be aware of all the patient’s allergies prior to prescribing a medication, not just those listed on the Non-med Allergen..
The post TouchWorks 15.1: Allergy Status Enhancements appeared first on The Galen Healthcare Solutions Blog.
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TouchWorks 15.1: Potential Sensitive Health Conditions
Patient privacy in an EHR is a subject at the front of everyone’s minds, patient and health care worker alike. The HIPAA Privacy Rule affords protection to all patients. It also provides special protection to patients with certain diagnoses or treatments for conditions, such as mental health, HIV/AIDS, or substance abuse. In an effort to provide more options for patient security around potentially sensitive health conditions, TouchWorksTM V15.1 has an added layer of security to flag patients who fit into those categories. In the Patient Profile Dialog Clinical Information, there is a new field for Potentially Sensitive Health. This will flag patient charts that might contain potentially sensitive health conditions. If checked, the Available Communities in the Community Information section are all are automatically set to Not Shared. These can be manually changed to Shared if the patient provided appropriate written consent..
The post TouchWorks 15.1: Potential Sensitive Health Conditions appeared first on The Galen Healthcare Solutions Blog.
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EHR Database Training Case Study
Recently, Galen had the pleasure of providing database training at a large, independent, non-profit, treatment and research center on the forefront for more than 50 years of clinical research trials. Migration to a new EHR, Allscripts Touchworks™ Enterprise EHR posed a significant challenge to the analysts in the IT Department. They needed to develop a deeper understanding of the database to identify criteria for potential clinical trial study populations. There was a need to design training that encompassed knowledge level of learners from varied roles and experience levels within the organization within one classroom environment. Galen offered database experts with not only years of expertise, but also experience with the nuances of clinical research criteria. The Database Classroom Training offered the client review of the schema, common relationships, and an overview of the major tables of the Allscripts TouchWorks™ Enterprise..
The post EHR Database Training Case Study appeared first on The Galen Healthcare Solutions Blog.
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