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GE HealthcareCentricity Practice SolutionGoing beyond Meaningful Use.The IT tools and services you need now.The support you need for the future.GE Healthcare is your strong, stable, strategic partner indemonstrating Meaningful Use. With our comprehensiveCentricity solutions, long-term commitment to innovation,customer advocacy, and deep domain expertise, we canprovide you the tools, services, and support you need toaddress the Meaningful Use criteria under the ARRA HITECHAct. And establish the foundation for driving improved careoutcomes and lower healthcare costs for more patients.0100 0101001010111000101011110010011001100101101101010

Professional servicesGoing beyond: Meaningful Use assessmentsAs part of our implementation services, GE Healthcareexperts will assist you with:To make sure you are on track to realize the potential of theARRA HITECH program, GE Healthcare offers value-addedMeaningful Use services. Three to six months after beginningto use Centricity Practice Solution, you can contract withour EMR Consulting Team for a special Meaningful Useassessment to help you understand your progress towarddemonstrating the Meaningful Use criteria. Implementation consulting services, including technicalimplementation and clinical consulting Project management and workflow redesign Implementation services for complementary solutionsfrom GE HealthcareMeaningful Use WorkshopEngage with GE Healthcare experts in a dedicated trainingsession to understand how Centricity Practice Solutionfunctionality can help you demonstrate Meaningful Useand evaluate your organization’s progress in adoptingyour EMR.GE consultants will assess your practice’s use of CentricityPractice Solution, including incorporation of decision supportand ePrescribing into workflows, applications such as CentricityPractice – Clinical Messenger, and interface and interoperabilityfunctions. Your practice will receive an evaluation scorecardfor planning any optimizations and help in creating an actionplan to make full use of your EMR capabilities.Customer Education servicesGet the knowledge, tools, and strategies you need to adoptCentricity Practice Solution and the right workflows toachieve Meaningful Use – from overall infrastructure andtechnology to managing effective change to softwarespecific solutions.Training servicesWe offer an array of flexible learning options to meet yourindividual training needs including classroom and onlinetraining options or you can work with an expert to designyour own training plan.World-class customer supportOur committed GE Healthcare engineers and IT professionalsare dedicated to supporting customers at every step towardsachieving Meaningful Use and beyond.“ The solutions that GE Healthcare offers go beyond solely offering an EMR, but also include critical solutions for patientengagement and communication. Together with their MQIC service for quality improvement and reporting, GE Healthcarehas made readiness for Meaningful Use very straight forward for us. We chose Centricity because there is such apartnership between GE Healthcare and its users.”Alice Masciarelli, RN,Administrator at Quantum Family Care,Denton, Texas

A comprehensive packageCentricity Practice SolutionCentricity Clinical Content (CCC) form setCombining an electronic medical record (EMR) with a practicemanagement system, Centricity Practice Solution provides thecore functionality, such as electronic prescribing, needed byclinicians and by the front office and billing staff. This certifiedsolution provides an excellent foundation for demonstratingthe measures required by the Centers for Medicare andMedicaid Services (CMS). In combination with the GE Healthcaresolutions and services below, your organization will have acomprehensive solution for Meaningful Use and beyond.A collection of forms and templates physicians and otherclinicians can use to easily enter data into the EMR system ina structured way for analysis. Capturing data in a structuredmanner is a key component in many of the Meaningful Usemeasures, and is an inherent feature of Centricity PracticeSolution. Utilizing forms helps you use the system even moreefficiently – whether you utilize the CCC form set, alternativeform sets from GE Healthcare or other customers, or evenform sets created just for your healthcare organization.Centricity Practice – Clinical MessengerQuality Reporting ServicesThis value-added solution complements the EMR by supportingcommunications outside the walls of the healthcare organizationwith patients and other practices. This solution is particularlycritical to meeting CMS requirements related to exchangingclinical data with other individuals.Interface engineA set of reports and services that allow you to easily evaluateyour capability to meet quality measurements, includingMeaningful Use requirements. Through specialized services,GE Healthcare can process the data you collect related to qualitymeasurements so you are not burdened with elaborate dataand report design. De-identified data is processed by a securedata warehouse, which provides access to clear and actionablereports to quality administrators and physicians. As part ofthese services, GE Healthcare also provides clinical analystswho help you understand the specific nuances of thequality measures and how this relates to the data yourclinicians collect.Supports the easy exchange of lab results, billing information,demographics, clinical notes, and other data between theEMR system and third-party systems.When you become a member of our Medical QualityImprovement Consortium (MQIC), you automaticallyreceive Quality Reporting Services at no additional cost.Immunization registry interfacePerformance ReportingCentricity Practice – Patient PortalProvides a mechanism for patients to securely communicatewith providers, request an appointment, and easily accesstheir own clinical information through a website.Ensures that the interface for immunizations is properlyimplemented for many state-specific registries.Public health agency interfacesA service that ensures the proper submission of clinical datato public health agencies such as those supporting cities,counties, states, or even nationally.Lab interfacesEnables your practice to easily import clinical lab tests fromregional and national laboratories as structured results intothe EMR.This submission service to third parties such as CMS cangenerate the required format for clinical quality measures.Although CMS will not be able to accept this format until the2012 reporting period, you are required to have a solutionthat generates this format. With GE, you will pay for thisservice only when you electronically submit data.Additional componentsThe following components can help you make optimal useof Centricity Practice Solution’s comprehensive practicemanagement and EMR capabilities: Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Rosetta Stone Gateway Faxing solution Document management solution

to address Meaningful UseThe following table lists the functional measures that you will report to CMS aboutyour Meaningful Use of EMR technologies through attestation. Next to each measureis a brief description of how the above solutions from GE Healthcare can help youmeet each requirement. In addition, other products and services are listed that areeither required, or highly recommended by GE Healthcare for you to more easilyachieve Meaningful Use and go beyond.Core SetRqmtCriteriaHow GE solutions can help30%CPOE used for medication ordersAdd medications and prescriptions directly into apatient’s chart with Centricity Practice Solution (CPS)Y/NDrug to drug, drug to allergy interaction checksBe alerted to interaction checks throughout the clinicalcomponents of CPS40%Prescriptions transmitted electronicallywhen permissibleElectronically prescribe medications directly topharmacies and mail order from CPS80%Problems entered as structured data or none notedAdd problems based on ICD-9 to a patient’s problem listwith CPS80%Medications entered as structured data or none notedAdd medications leveraging industry-accepted codes toa patient’s medication list with CPS80%Allergies entered as structured data or none notedAdd medication allergies using the same codesas medications to a patient’s allergy list to ensureinteraction checking with CPS50%Demographics entered as structured dataEnter all required demographic fields directly or acceptthrough an interface with CPS50%Vital signs are recorded in patients over 2 y/o with ht,wt, BPLeverage the Centricity Clinical Content forms to entervital signs50%Smoking status recorded in patients over 13 y/oLeverage the Centricity Clinical Content forms to entersmoking statusY/NImplement 1 clinical decision support rule relevant tospecialty or high clinical priorityLeverage the Centricity Clinical Content forms toprompt you when tests such as a HgbA1c is dueY/NReport quality measures to CMS – 3 core (up to 3 altcore) and 3 otherUse Quality Reporting Services to easily determine thenumerator, denominator, and exclusions for each qualitymeasures, and once required by CMS, automaticallysubmit these values electronically with PerformanceReporting50%Upon request, provide patient electronic copyof health information within 3 days (diagnosisresults, prob/med/allergy)Communicate with patients via secured email withCentricity Practice – Clinical Messenger50%Clinical summaries provided for each office visitwithin 3 daysDeliver visit summaries with Centricity Practice –Clinical MessengerY/NTest certified EMR to electronically exchange keyclinical dataSecurely exchange clinical information withCentricity Practice – Clinical MessengerY/NConduct or review security risk analysis andimplement security updatesHave the confidence that GE’s solutions supportthe proper tools by being certified such that yourhealthcare organization can implement soundsecurity processes

Menu Set (select 5 of 10, with one of the 5 addressing either public reporting option)RqmtCriteriaHow GE solutions can helpY/NProvide drug formulary checkReview drug formulary information with electronicprescribing in CPS50%Clinical lab tests (neg/pos or numeric) are enteredas structured dataReceive lab tests from national laboratories, hospitals,etc. through supported standards with the interfaceengineY/NGenerate lists of patients with specific conditionsto use for quality improvement, standardizedmanagement, or outreachExecute an inquiry in CPS to easily identify patientsmeeting conditions or requiring follow-up care10%Provide patient electronic access to health information Enable patients to easily access the clinical information(lab results, prob/med/allergy lists)via the Centricity Practice – Patient Portal20%Send reminders to patient (per patient preference) forpreventive care/follow-upUse inquiries in CPS and Centricity Practice – ClinicalMessenger to effectively provide reminders to patients10%Provide patient education materialsEasily print the appropriate patient handouts duringthe visit with CPS50%Perform medication reconciliation of relevantencounters and each transition of careReconcile medications for patients, leveraging theelectronic prescribing functions within CPS50%Provide care summary for each transition of careand referralProvide care summaries with Centricity Practice –Clinical MessengerY/NTest certified EMR capacity to submit electronic datato immunization registrySubmit information to state supported immunizationregistries with immunization interfacesY/NTest certified EMR capacity to submit electronic datato public health agenciesSubmit clinical data to a variety of public healthagencies (city, country, state, etc.) with the assistanceof custom interface solutions