Standards & Best Practices Quarterly Q&A Discusssion

Posted on January 8 2015 by adminvnane

Thanks to all who attended the Standards of Care Quarterly Q&A calls held on August 20 ant 21st.  The Q&A is available on the website and can be found under the Members Only and click on the VNANE Video Training button.  VNANE will continue to hold Q&A discussion calls on a quarterly basis via a teleconference and facilitated by members of the Quality & Clinical Integration Committee for the clinically integrated network. This is a great forum to bring any questions, suggestions or just to listen in to learn how other VNANE members are doing at this point in time.  The schedule for future Q&As follows:  Be sure to save the date: Thursday, 10/29/15 at 11:00  & Friday, 10/30/15 at 10:00

 

 

2014 Innovator Award

Posted on October 14 2014 by adminnurse

The Innovator Award was awarded to Home Health VNA of Lawrence, MA for their collaborative work with Lawrence General Hospital, Pentucket Medical Associates and Greater Lawrence Family Health Center to form the Merrimack Valley Health Information Exchange (MVHIE) collaborative. The goal was to develop an electronic mechanism to share information about shared patients to ensure quality care across the continuum to reduce issues in care transitions experienced by providers and patients, especially patients utilizing the ER for non urgent and/or chronic medical problems.  This January, the MVHIE collaborative successfully developed and implemented the secure infrastructure   that was necessary to connect MVHIE collaborating providers and enabled the electronic transmission of patient care information using the Massachusetts Health Care Information Exchange, otherwise known as Mass HIway.  Read the Innovator Nomination to learn more.  Congratulations to Home Health VNA for their Innovation.

 

ICD-10

Posted on September 29 2014 by adminvnane

Are you ready for ICD-10 coding?  As of 10/1/15, it is a CMS requirement.  CMS offers a newsletter with updates on the changes.  Use the following link to learn more:http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/CMS_ICD-10_Industry_Email_Updates.html