Blog by Kristin Jenkins, President, DFW Hospital Council Foundation It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to an outstanding program – the North Texas Regional Extension Center (NTREC). We are so grateful to Dr. Matt Murray of Cook Children’s Health Care System and Dr. Richard Howe, the executive director of NTREC. Their […]
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Notice to NTREC Supported Physicians!
The North Texas Regional Extension Center (NTREC) is a grant funded program whose purpose was to assist primary care physicians in 42 counties of Northeast Texas migrate from paper records to an electronic medical record (EMR) and achieve Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 1. The NTREC program was funded by the Department of Health and Human […]
Physician Data Analytics – Challenges and Tips for Deployment (Part 2 of 2)
By Richard Howe, PhD, Executive Director, North Texas Regional Extension Center Last month, I discussed some of the challenges related to deployment of a population focused, data analytics system. These challenges were presented in more detail in a recent article in Healthcare IT News (09/14/2015). The article noted that the efficiency of a population health […]
Physician Data Analytics – Challenges and Tips for Deployment (Part 1 of 2)
By Richard Howe, PhD, Executive Director, North Texas Regional Extension Center Over the last 3 months, I discussed how the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) legislation, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for physicians, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Value-Based Payment Modifier (VBPM) and meaningful use (MU) will become integrated into a […]
Physician Data Analytics and Your EHR – Impact of MACRA, MIPS, and SGRs (Part 3 of 3)
By Richard Howe, PhD, Executive Director, North Texas Regional Extension Center Last month, I discussed more about how the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for physicians, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Value-Based Payment Modifier (VBPM) and meaningful use (MU) will become integrated into a single program. The MIPS program is part of the Medicare Access […]
Physician Data Analytics and Your EHR – Impact of MACRA, MIPS, and SGRs (Part 2 of 3)
By Richard Howe, PhD, Executive Director, North Texas Regional Extension Center Last month, I introduced the concept of how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is migrating from fee for service (FFS) to value-based, Alternative Payment Models (APMs), and the basic construct of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) […]
Physician Data Analytics and Your EHR – Impact of MACRA, MIPS, and SGRs (Part 1 of 3)
By Richard Howe, PhD, Executive Director, North Texas Regional Extension Center Last month, I briefly touched on some data quality issues that must be addressed to improve overall use of an EHR in a physician practice. Improving data quality will significantly enhance daily practice operations and long-term data analytics and population health management (PHM). Over […]
Physician Data Analytics – Impact of Data Quality – Part 2
By Richard Howe, PhD, Executive Director, North Texas Regional Extension Center Last month, I briefly touched on some quality issues related to use of an electronic health record (EHR). Over the past year, I have participated in a work group, called the ONC-HIMSS Patient Matching Community of Practice, co-led by the Office of the National […]
Physician Data Analytics – Impact of Data Quality – Part 1
By Richard Howe, PhD, Executive Director of NTREC Last month, I discussed five steps for a practice to migrate toward population health. One area that has a major impact on both practice operations and future analytics is data quality. Over the past year, I have participated in a work group called the ONC-HIMSS Patient Matching […]
Physician Data Analytics – Five Basic Steps Toward Population Health
By Richard Howe, PhD, Executive Director of NTREC Last month in an article in HealthITAnalytics (07/06/15), I discussed how our organization enables population health with big data analytics. Even though this article is focused on population health across a large metropolitan community, some of the underlying principles also apply to a small physician practice. Five […]