Alteer Office 8.0, a fully integrated SaaS-based (Software as a Service) EHR and PM solution, is an ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 "Complete EHR" Certified Solution.
Meaningful Use Release Overview
This release focused on strengthening the product's ability to report on patient outcomes and clinical quality as well as exchanging data with outside sources.
Clinical
170.304 (c) Record Demographics
Changes have been made to the application to now collect ethnicity and race in addition to the demographics already available.
170.302 (f)(1) Vital signs
Users can enter vital signs in the flowsheets or the Observations/Flowsheets section in the encounter. The information entered will display in both areas. Entering vitals for a patient contributes to the percentage calculation for the Automate Measures reporting requirement.
170.302 (f)(2) Body mass index
BMI is automatically calculated when a height and weight are entered in the vital signs screen
170.302 (f)(3) Plot and display growth charts
Alteer Office supports the use of the CDC standard growth charts.
170.302 (g) Smoking status
Smoking status & cessation counseling can be recorded in the Social History section of the encounter. Entering this information for a patient contributes to the percentage calculation for the Automate Measures reporting requirement.
170.302 (e) Maintain active medication allergy list
Active & inactive allergies can be recorded and tracked for the patients. Entering allergies contributes to the percentage calculation for the Automate Measures reporting requirement.
170.302 (j) Medication reconciliation
Compare medication lists by clicking the Medication List button on the toolbar in the patient's facesheet.
170.302 (n) Automate measure calculation
New reports have been created to calculate the meaningful use objective with a percentage-based measure. These reports pull information from data entered while working with a patient. For example, when demographics are entered it will automatically be counted in the report for the percentage calculation.
170.302 (d) Maintain active medication list
Active & inactive medications can be recorded and tracked for the patients. Entering medications contributes to the percentage calculation for the Automate Measures reporting requirement.
170.302 (a) Drug/Drug and Drug/Allergy Interactions
Providers will be alerted when medication interactions may affect the patient. Interactions also include Drug/Diagnosis interactions. The level of interaction warning (minor, moderate, sever) can be set on a practice or provider basis.
170.302 (b) Drug formulary checks
Providers will be able to see when a medication will be covered by a patient's insurance plan. Alternative medications are also listed.
170.302 (c) Maintain up-to-date problem list
Active & inactive problems can be recorded and tracked for the patients. Entering medications contributes to the percentage calculation for the Automate Measures reporting requirement
170.304 (e) Clinical decision support
Automated, electronic clinical decision support rules based on data elements in a patient's chart will alert providers to the patient's compliance or non-compliance of benchmarks set for maintaining &or controlling the particular condition or disease.
170.302 (h) Incorporate lab results
Lab results are electronically received & systematically routed into the patient chart with the discrete data populating the e-lab flowsheets for result-result comparison and graphing.
170.304 (a) Computerized provider order entry
Providers can place lab, radiology, referral and procedure orders for a patient directly from the encounter. These orders can be assigned to a user for completion &or follow-up. The status of an order can be viewed in the history section, patient's chart or in the new Oder's work area.
170.302 (m) Patient specific education resources
Providers can electronically identify patients with specific diagnosis and provide them education resources based on their specific problem.
170.304 (g) Timely Access
Offices can now enable patients online access to their clinical information including problem list, medications, laboratory test results, and medication allergy list.
170.304 (d) Patient Reminders
Users are now able to generate a patient reminder list for preventative or follow-up care based on data in the problem list, medication list, medication allergy list, laboratory test results and demographics.
170.302 (i) Generate patient lists
Users can electronically select, sort, and generate lists of patients according their problem list, medication, demographics and laboratory test results.
Interoperability
170.302 (k) Submission to immunization registries
Providers are able to record past and present immunizations in the patients chart. Once saved, the immunization record can then be submitted to the registry.
170.302 (l) Public health surveillance
In our newest version, users are able to electronically record, modify retrieve and submit syndromic-based public health surveillance information
170.304 (b) Electronic prescribing
Providers may electronically generate and transmit prescriptions and get prescription related information provided from our partnership with Surescripts.
170.304 (i) Exchange Clinical Information and Patient Summary Record
Providers will be able to receive a CCD or CCR from another entity. These files will be converted into a human readable format for storing in the patient's chart.
170.304 (f) Electronic copy of health information
Practices will now be able to provide electronic copies of health information to patients. This information can be provided in a pdf or xml format & will include the patient's problems, lab results, allergies & medications (when available).
170.304 (h) Clinical Summaries
Practices will now be able to provide clinical summaries in an electronic format to patients at the end of their visit. These summaries can be provided in a pdf or xml format & will include the patient's problems, lab results, allergies & medications (when available).
170.304 (j) Calculate and Submit Clinical Quality Measures
Changes have been made to electronically calculate the 6 core clinical quality measure as well as 3 additional measures.
Security
170.302 (o) Access control
Alteer Office requires each user to have a unique user names in order to successfully audit what is happening within the EHR.
170.302 (t) Authentication
170.302 (q) Automatic log-off
After Alteer Office has been idle for a certain amount of time the user will automatically be signed off. This will help to secure the patient data. The inactivity time out is determined by the practice & can be set practice wide or on a per user basis.
170.302 (p) Emergency access
Access to a patient's chart can now be restricted. If a user is normally restricted from accessing a chart & an emergency arises, temporary access to the chart can be given to the user. This access will be tracked in the audit logs.
170.302 (w) Accounting of disclosures (optional)
The practice can track all disclosures of patient information. This can be done from the print &or fax toolbar functions as well as from the Facesheet>Patient Administration.
170.302 (r) Audit log
Changes made now allow certain users in a practice to access a new audit log. This audit log tracks several activities within Alteer Office such as when a medication has been added or modified or when a user accesses a restricted chart.
