Webinars

Kentucky REC HIPAA Security Webinar Feb. 16

Feb 4, 2016

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Start the year off right and learn about your required Security Risk Analysis. Stay compliant!

As a valued partner, please join us for this discussion on HIPAA Security Rule basics and best practices. We will cover tips, tools, and tactics for implementing thorough compliance in 2016.

The Kentucky REC Privacy and Security experts will be hosting a panel format webinar to share the requirements and processes for completing an annual Security Risk Analysis. Our expert panel will discuss the required/addressable standards of the HIPAA Security Rule and defensible steps that practices can take to ensure they are meeting all compliance requirements. In this conversation our experts will ensure that organizations are equipped with compliance best practices and the most up-to-date methods for completing a Security Risk Analysis. In addition, our experts will cover the Office of Civil Rights audit protocols, highlighting how the Office of Inspector General (OIG) concentrates their efforts across the privacy, security, and breach notification rule. We will discuss the Kentucky REC Security and Risk Analysis services, along with Project Management services that help practices mitigate gaps.

Save the date: February 16th 2016 at 12:00 pm

Intended Audience:

Covered Entities who electronically transmit any health information
Business Associates
Compliance Officers
Information Technology Managers

Learning Objectives:

Understand the frequency and method for conducting a security risk analysis
Know the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recommended steps to conduct a Security Risk Analysis
Learn best practices and tactics to reduce breaches in your organization
Understand OCR audit protocol and how to prepare if you are a Covered Entity or Business Associate
Know the services Kentucky REC experts provide in order to help medical practices with compliance

We look forward to our discussion. HIPAA Security Rule Webinar: February 16 at 12:00 pm EST

2016 Patient-Centered Medical Home Webinar

Jan 25, 2016

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Join us for our FREE Kentucky REC Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and Patient Centered Specialty Practice (PCSP) Education Webinar on February 10th, 2016 at 12pm.

Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) (FOR PRIMARY CARE)
A Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a team-based model of care led by a personal physician who provides continuous and coordinated care throughout a patient’s lifetime to maximize health outcomes. The PCMH model provides specific standards for transforming the organization and delivery of primary care to be more: comprehensive, patient-centered, coordinated, accessible and safe.

Patient-Centered Specialty Practice (PCSP) (FOR SPECIALISTS)
The Patient-Centered Specialty Program extends medical home concepts to specialists. Specialty practices committed to access, communication and care coordination can earn accolades as the “neighbors” that surround and inform the medical home and colleagues in primary care. Practices that become recognized will demonstrate patient-centered care and clinical quality through: streamlined referral processes and care coordination with referring clinicians, timely patient and caregiver-focused care management and continuous clinical quality improvement.

This webinar will

Provide an overview of PCMH and PCSP
Outline PCMH and PCSP requirements and standards for achieving recognition
Offer best practices and steps towards true practice transformation

Don’t miss this excellent opportunity to learn how to transform your practice to improve quality of care while also improving your bottom line!

Maximizing Meaningful Use Webinar

Jan 3, 2016

Your Guide to Meaningful Use and Alignment with other Quality Programs!

The Kentucky REC is hosting a Maximizing Meaningful Use Webinar on January 14th 2016 to start off the New Year!

As a valued partner of the Kentucky REC we invite you to attend this informative webinar. We will review wrap up items for 2015 under the Modified Stage 2 EHR Incentive Program, and highlight the key areas to focus on for 2016. In this presentation we will cover action items held over from 2015 in preparation for attestations and help ensure that you and your practice are prepared for a full calendar year of Meaningful Use.

Save the date: January 14th 2016 from 11:00 am to 12 pm

We at the Kentucky REC are excited to be able to offer this service. It allows us to reach all of you, our clients quickly, so you may begin the process of preparing and submitting attestations. At the close of the presentation there will be a Q & A session where you will be able to ask us, your Meaningful Use Health Information Technology Advisors, any lingering questions.

We plan for this webinar to be the first of many. Stay tuned for future announcements of dates and topics!

We look forward to our discussion on January 14th.

Maximizing Meaningful Use: January 14 at 11:00 am EST

Healthcare Transformation Survival Seminars Announced

Oct 13, 2015

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Join us for our FREE Healthcare Transformation Survival Seminar Series!

Don’t miss this opportunity to take an in-depth look at the new Stage 3 Meaningful Use requirements! This seminar will also cover the latest happenings around Value-Based Payment Models, HIPAA Privacy & Security, Patient-Centered Medical Home and the Kentucky Health Information Exchange. Breakfast will be provided!

Agenda

8:00AM – 8:20AM Registration & Breakfast
8:20AM – 8:30AM Welcome & Introduction
8:30AM – 9:45AM Surviving Meaningful Use: A Deeper Dive into the New Final Rule
9:45AM – 10:30AM Surviving the Move to Value Based Payment
10:30AM – 10:45AM Break
10:45AM – 11:05AM HIPAA Survival Strategy
11:05AM – 11:25AM Navigating the Path to Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition
11:25AM – 11:45AM Kentucky Health Information Exchange Update
11:45AM – 12:00PM Kentucky REC Closing
**CST for Paducah Event

Dates/Locations

November 6, 2015 – Morehead, KY

Morehead Convention Center
111 East 1st Street
Morehead, KY 4035
*In Partnership with Northeast Kentucky Regional Health Information Organization

November 20, 2015 – Somerset, KY

The Center for Rural Development
2292 North US Highway 27 #300
Somerset, KY 42501

December 2, 2015 – Lexington, KY

UK Chandler Hospital Pavilion A
800 Rose Street
Lexington, KY 40536

December 11, 2015 – Paducah, KY

Baptist Health Paducah – Heart Center Auditorium
2501 Kentucky Avenue
Paducah, KY 42003

Partners

Surviving Meaningful Use: What Does the New Final Rule Mean For You?

Oct 7, 2015

On October 6th the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced the release of the Final Rule for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs and the 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria. The EHR Incentive Program Final Rule provides new criteria that eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must meet in order to successfully participate in the EHR Incentive Programs. The Final Rule outlines program requirements in 2015 through 2017 (Modified Stage 2) and Stage 3 in 2018 and beyond, and includes a comment period for Stage 3.

The Kentucky REC will be hosting informative webinars for both Eligible Providers and Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals to cover the major changes to the EHR Incentive Program following the release of the Final Rule and to discuss how these changes will affect your Meaningful Use attestation for 2015 and beyond.

CMS 2015 Tip Sheets available here

Webinar Information

Eligible Providers

Surviving Meaningful Use: An Overview of the New Final Rule for Eligible Providers – October 22nd at 1:30pm EST

Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals

Surviving Meaningful Use: An Overview of the New Final Rule for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals – October 14th at 12:00pm EST

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ICD-10 Coder and Physician Training Now Available

May 26, 2015

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Implementation of ICD-10 is a few short months away. Therefore, the time for in-depth training and education has come.

Kentucky REC’s hands-on training and education program is designed to teach coding professionals and physicians how to properly use the ICD-10 coding system. These services will put healthcare organizations on the path to documentation that facilitates proper ICD-10 code assignment.

Join Kentucky REC for these Continuing Education training sessions:

In-Person Coder and Physician Training

Lexington Registration July 15-17, 2015 in Lexington, Hilary J. Boone Center

ICD Coder Training Information Sheet ICD Physician Training Information Sheet

Dont miss this excellent opportunity to receive expert training in a relaxed local environment!

Additional information including agenda, speaker bio and CE credit details also available at registration page.

Webinar: How To Interpret Your Quality & Resource Use Reports (QRURs)

May 12, 2015

Our friends at QSource Atom Alliance – Kentucky’s Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) – will be hosting a Webinar: How to Interpret Your Quality & Resource Use Reports (QRURs) on Wednesday, May 18, 2015 from 12pm to 1pm CST.

Did you know that that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provide QRURs to physicians in groups of all sizes? On this webinar, QSource will discuss the report and what it means for the future of healthcare and your organization.

All physicians have a 2013 Annual Report and a 2014 Mid-Year Report available. Look for the 2014 Annual QRUR in late summer of this year. This webinar will walk you through these reports and the value they bring to your practice.

REGISTER HERE

Who Should Attend: Practice Administrators, CFOs and Billing Administrators, Quality Improvement Directors, Physicians

Learn more about QSource and Atom Alliance here.

UK HealthCare and Kentucky REC Announce Partnership with KPCA Benefiting Rural Care Providers

May 11, 2015

Kentucky REC is pleased to be involved with the launch of a groundbreaking partnership between the Kentucky Primary Care Association (KPCA) and UK HealthCare aimed at providing more than 800 patient care providers access to UK HealthCare support services such as supply chain contracts, medical professional placement services, practice transformation support/training and an after-hours pediatric call triage center.

KPCA has more than 250 member clinics from Paducah to Pikeville and from Covington to the Tennessee border serving some of Kentucky’s most underserved citizens and focusing on improving the health of those they serve.

The partnership provides KPCA members access to services at heavily discounted rates or at no charge to the facilities. One of the prominent features of the partnership is the recognition of KPCA organizations as “affiliate” sites under UK HealthCare’s group purchasing contract.

This cooperation also affords KPCA members access to practice transformation and Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) services provided by UK HealthCare’s Kentucky REC. Kentucky REC will assist practices in the transition to quality and value-based care models. As a compliment to the PCMH model, UK HealthCare’s after hours pediatric call triage service has been extended to KPCA members as well, providing organizations with around the clock access to specially trained registered nurses and over twenty-six community pediatricians and nurse practitioners throughout Central and Eastern Kentucky.

KPCA members will have access to robust staffing solutions through Kentucky Medical Professional Placement Services and the Kentucky Medical Opportunities Website, an online marketplace linking candidates to vacancies across the state, active job search features for recruits, and links to offline events that link job seekers with interested organizations looking to fill positions across the clinical spectrum.

“Primary care physicians, especially those in rural areas, have the extra burden of high patient volume, limited staff, and stretched resources,” said Dr. Michael Karpf, UK executive vice president for health affairs. “By partnering, UK HealthCare and KPCA members can grow important programs and services for their patients while also controlling and reducing operating costs. In today’s health care environment, this will be a game changer for many KPCA members.”

However, this collaboration is as much about improving the quality of care provided in KPCA member clinics as it is reducing costs.

“By addressing some of these issues related to costs, clinics with already scarce resources can instead focus on improving the quality of care provided across the Commonwealth,” said Joseph E. Smith, executive director of the Kentucky Primary Care Association. “We’ve had a longstanding association with the University and UK HealthCare and this partnership elevates that relationship by adding a strong commitment to assisting rural doctors, nurses and practice managers who face some of the toughest transitions taking place in medicine today.”

Additional Information: University of Kentucky News (UKNOW) & WYMT

Kentucky Healthcare Providers Champion the Cause of Transformation

Mar 20, 2015

The Kentucky REC launches a new round of support for healthcare providers seeking to transform patient care in Kentucky.

On Friday, March 13, the Kentucky Regional Extension Center hosted its second Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Kick-Off Meeting for a group of pioneer healthcare provider organizations in Kentucky.

Participants included: UK HealthCare, Baptist Health Medical Group, Murray-Calloway County Physicians, Matthew 25 AIDS Clinic, Bluegrass Clinic, Bluegrass.org, Kentucky River Community Care, Harrison Memorial Hospital Physicians, and AC Wright, MD.

The Kentucky REC will assist these practices in achieving recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as a PCMH. Becoming a PCMH practice involves using an innovative improvement framework for healthcare organizations to enhance quality and value for patients.With its focus on quality improvement,care coordination, preventative services, and chronic disease management, the PCMH framework helps practices deliver better care, better outcomes and lower costs.

“We are delighted to offer support to practices as they prepare for the many changes ahead in healthcare,” stated Carol Steltenkamp, MD, Kentucky REC Director and UK HealthCare Chief Medical Information Office. “We are excited to offer these services and to support innovative care models, such as PCMH, that are proven to help practices deliver coordinated, cost-effective care for their patients.”

Kentucky REC has helped healthcare providers across the state implement electronic health records and qualify for federal incentive funds. But, electronic health records are just a start for practices on the road to more patient-centered care. Now, the Kentucky REC is focused on helping practices prepare for the next wave of innovation by using technology together with changes in practice culture and workflow to radically improve patients’ experience of care and the effectiveness of the healthcare system overall.

Practices participate in group learning sessions over 18 months and work together with specially-trained REC staff to make changes that benefit patients. At the end of the 18 months, successful practices will apply for special recognition from NCQA.