• Obtain a clear understanding of the 2023 regulatory reporting requirements for IPPS (Inpatient Prospective Payment System), OPPS (Outpatient Prospective Payment System) and the QPP (Quality Payment Program) quality programs.
• Gain a better understanding of available resources and tools that align best practice guidance from MEDITECH with CMS and other regulatory bodies for these programs.
• Become more familiar with how quality performance scores are calculated, how exclusions and exceptions affect the weighting process and how your performance scores not only identify improvement opportunities but also how they impact your financial bottom line.

Jamie Gerardo joined Acmeware in 2008 and is Vice President of our Professional Services group. Jamie has been an integral part of Acmeware’s growth, including our custom reporting services and quality reporting implementation and project management. Jamie has a passion for databases and enjoys sharing information and teaching others. She has been involved with MEDITECH healthcare for the past 15 years, with a concentration on the Data Repository environment since 2005. She studied Business Administration in Management at Texas State University.

• Define HL7 and the message types allowing the learner to become familiar with terminology and determine what is needed.
• Demonstrate segment structure, segment mapping and fields. This will provide the foundation for getting started with HL7.
• Describe common HL7 standards. These standards define how information is packaged and communicated from one party to another, setting the language, structure, and data types.

Industry veteran Ken Hoffman, President/CEO, The HCISolution, has been in healthcare IT since 1990, bringing relevant industry experience and proven business success to HCI. Ken is well known for providing strategic plans for large hospital initiatives and delivering that vision by providing innovative integration and software solutions. Having developed and delivered integrated applications and interfaces for hundreds of hospitals, he is highly experienced in design, policy and procedure, and best practice strategy.

In 1997, Ken brought his integration business into Iatric Systems as one of the original three framers. From 1997 through 2012 he built the largest Integration business in the industry before stepping down as Vice President in March 2012. In April 2013, Ken started The HCISolution with a focus on customer care and affordable integrated solutions.

• Demonstrate and navigate through SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to locate the DR data needed to get started with Data Repository.
• Demonstrate the knowledge of the basic SQL query and write simple query to display results from the MEDITECH DR database.
• Examine the query statements to troubleshoot issues with and determine causes for invalid results.

Stacey Collins, Director of Data Services at The HCISolution, began her career in healthcare IT in 2001 after graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. While at MEDITECH, she worked as a Programmer/Analyst in support and development. In her desire to further improve the customer experience, Stacy worked as a Development Designer providing input toward the development and design of applications. Having fulfilled the software side of healthcare, Stacey’s passion for the industry led her to complete a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics helping her understand the science behind the medicine. Stacey is customer focused and applies her strong technical skills in a variety of ways to meet the needs of the customer.

• How to solve revenue cycle challenges, including coding issues.
• System setup considerations for revenue cycle and coders when implementing Expanse Ambulatory.
• Reconciliation and reports; and third party interfaces.

Instructor:Dawn Osborn
Dawn Osborn, Sr. MEDITECH Consultant at CereCore, has more than 30 years of healthcare informatics experience, with the last 18 years dedicated solely to MEDITECH Revenue Cycle applications. She has worked as a Financial/Revenue Cycle Project Manager, Lead, Architect and Analyst. She has also held management and database admin roles in Health Information Management, Patient Accounting, Patient Access, and Management Information Systems. Dawn holds a Master Degree in Healthcare Information Administration from the Medical University of South Carolina and a Bachelor Degree in Clinical Laboratory Sciences.

• Demonstrate the creation of a new MEDITECH Report Designer report from initial concept to completion. This will provide the foundation for getting started with writing reports in Report Designer.
• Demonstrate the ability to add graphics, total lines, and counters to your reports. This allows the report writer to add tabulation and summary information to their reports while ensuring the reports have better readability and are more professional looking.
• Demonstrate the ability to create a Report Designer report that generates a data file. The learner will be able to create downloadable reports in a variety of formats.

Learning objectives:

• At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will understand how to analyze their current hospital-based quality metrics and assess their utilization of MEDITECH Expanse to achieve improvement.
• Participants will be able to find and utilize materials and tools needed to successfully implement MEDITECH EHR’s Excellence Toolkits.
• Participants will be able to use the information presented on SDOH (Social Determinant/Driver of Health) assessment development to formulate a draft plan for their organization.

Doug Aylaian, AVP, MEDITECH Professional Services, has over 35 years of healthcare experience spanning a variety of roles and responsibilities across Implementation and Client Services areas. Doug is currently responsible for the Business Intelligence team and Business and Clinical Analytics within the MEDITECH Professional Services Division. Doug is committed to ensuring customers have data driven insight for informed decision making to better realize mission statements around quality, safety, and cost management.

Alana Commendatore RN, Manager, Clinical Excellence & Physician Services, MEDITECH Professional Services, has over 10 years of healthcare experience as a registered nurse, both in direct patient care across multiple healthcare settings, and as a leader in numerous quality improvement projects. In addition to leading and managing the development of MEDITECH’s evidence-based outcomes-focused toolkits, she has also designed and implemented new processes to optimize clinical content development.

Janet Desroche, AVP, MEDITECH Professional Services, is responsible for Clinical Quality Improvement Professional Services, Physician Advisory Professional Services, and EHR Excellence Toolkits. She and her team focus on leveraging the EHR to improve patient care, patient safety, population health, workflow efficiency, and operational performance. Ms. Desroche serves on several industry committees, including the AMIA Informatics Partnership Council and the CHIME Opioid Task Force.

Power BI will impress you with its beautiful interface, instant performance, and deep ability to slice and dice your data any way you want – it’s unlike anything used until now for reporting from Data Repository. Don’t miss this fun and informative Wednesday workshop! (The workshop is not platform specific.)

Learner Outcomes:

• An understanding of Power BI concepts and terminology.
• Basic report design skills with Power BI Desktop.
• • Learn about Microsoft's Power Platform tools and how they relate to efficient data use from Data Repository.

Instructor: Ian Proffer
Ian Proffer is Acmeware’s Director of Communication and Training. Before joining Acmeware in 2007, he spent seven years in healthcare IT at Jefferson Healthcare in Port Townsend, WA (a MEDITECH C/S site) and Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Ian has worked for the last 20 years as a consultant, report writer, database analyst, administrator, and architect, including four years at Microsoft Corp. His practical work experience in healthcare includes database analysis and administration, report and application authoring and development, and user education and training.

Learning objectives:

• Optimize Claims & Claim Related Dictionaries: Improve claim’s processing time, reduce manual intervention, and eliminate the challenges that comes with Non-Primary Billing, Payer Specific requirements, and Alt Code Reporting.
• Align Collection Streams & Collection Related Dictionaries: Enhance timely follow-up, establish account oversight & escalation, and minimize avoidable write-offs due to filing limits.
• Improve Account Management & Interdepartmental Communication: Implement & organize key Account Checks, reduce emails as a method of interdepartmental communication, and improve patient account details.

Instructor: Sheryl Easter
Sheryl Easter is a Principal Consultant with Nordic Global Consulting. She has over 35 years’ experience working closely with healthcare organizations to help improve their Revenue Cycle and Financial Processes; resulting in increased revenue and decreased avoidable write-offs for the facilities. Sheryl has functioned in various roles including Managing Director-Revenue Cycle & Finance, Project Manager, Senior Management Consultant, and Senior Financial Analyst working in the areas of Patient Financial Services, Patient Access, Scheduling, Materials Management, Authorization/Referral Management, Health Information Management, Abstracting, Payroll, and General Financials. Education has been a key motivator, and after achieving a Master’s degree (MBA/HCM) with a large focus on healthcare; became and educator focusing on healthcare regulations, optimizations, changes, and revenue cycle.

In this information-packed workshop, you will learn:

• How to “charge from documentation” by incorporating billing components in clinical documentation to allow seamless flow of billing codes from provider documentation to the Coding Visit Worklist to boost revenue significantly
• Harness the power of “Registries” to monitor and report on patient population health based on criteria like age, diagnosis, next immunization/mammography due dates, lab results and query responses
• Incorporate advanced clinical documentation tips and techniques like Typicals, Tailored Documentation, Quick Texts and Widgets to improve and optimize the clinical documentation process
• Integrate clinical quality measures in documentation templates for improved patient care outcomes and MIPS attestation
• Get introduced to various “EHR Excellence Toolkits” provided by MEDITECH for advanced clinical decision support, real time surveillance and continued patient care

Al Monteiro is an Associate Consultant with Nordic Global Consulting. He is a result driven healthcare IT professional with over 13 years of MEDITECH experience; the last six years being focused primarily on MEDITECH Expanse Ambulatory implementation and optimization projects at various facilities across US and Canada. Al has functioned in various roles including Project Manager, Hospital Integration Specialist, MEDITECH Expanse Ambulatory Lead Consultant, Physician Liaison and Trainer, MIPS and Meaningful Use Advisor, Team Lead for OM, REG, CWS, ARM, SCA, HIM and ABS modules.

He completed his undergraduate degree in Information Technology Engineering in Pune, India. After completing his Master’s degree in Software Engineering at Kansas State University, he started out as a Clinical Applications Specialist at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center in South-east Kansas where he developed a passion for using technology to make an impact on patient care outcomes. Al Monteiro lead the early adoption of MEDITECH’s evidence-based Depression and Suicide Prevention Toolkit at Coffeyville Medical Regional Center’s Ambulatory facility.

Learning objectives:

• Identify how the MEDITECH data is stored to provide understanding that will influence the outcomes of data accuracy.
• Identify how to have accurate data to complete reports is key to patient safety and treatment.
• Demonstrate database schema and structure to allow users to more efficiently extract and present clinical data.

Instructor: Ken Hoffman
Industry veteran Ken Hoffman, President/CEO, The HCISolution, has been in healthcare IT since 1990, bringing relevant industry experience and proven business success to HCI. Ken is well known for providing strategic plans for large hospital initiatives and delivering that vision by providing innovative integration and software solutions. Having developed and delivered integrated applications and interfaces for hundreds of hospitals, he is highly experienced in design, policy and procedure, and best practice strategy.

In 1997, Ken brought his integration business into Iatric Systems as one of the original three framers. From 1997 through 2012 he built the largest Integration business in the industry before stepping down as Vice President in March 2012. In April 2013, Ken started The HCISolution with a focus on customer care and affordable integrated solutions.

• Demonstrate the creation of a Report Designer rule, in order to calculate a value to be used in a report. The learner will not be limited to the MEDITECH standard fields.
• Demonstrate the ability to create, sort, search, and traverse a list. Understanding how to work with MEDITECH lists provides the learner with an important tool in their report writing arsenal.
• Understand how to set up "custom data" in MEDITECH and use layer rules to support creating calculated fields.

Instructor: Dan Collins
Dan Collins, Executive VP at The HCISolution, has been at the forefront of EHR development and customer care for 25 years. Dan enjoyed a successful career at MEDITECH spanning two decades of leading customer implementation and service teams that supported all MEDITECH platforms. Dan is a technically skilled leader and software developer with a career dedicated to best practices, customer care, and maintaining positive long-term customer and partner relationships.