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January 2015 |
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A report on events affecting Oklahoma providers |
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January 1 Happy New Year! Cervical Health Awareness Month National Cervical Cancer Coalition National Birth Defects Prevention Month March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation National Blood Donor Month American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) January 12-13 ASI Training January 12 CAMS Implementation Meeting: By Invite Only January 19 – 25 Healthy Weight Week Healthy Weight Network January 20 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service Corporation for National and Community Service January 20-21 NEO, TherOps and CPR January 20-21 Wraparound 101: Tulsa: Health Home Providers Only North Regional Health and Wellness Center January 22-23 NAVIGATE Training January 22 Family Support Provider (FSP) Training: Tulsa North Regional Health and Wellness Center January 29– 30 Wraparound 101: OKC: Health Home Providers Only |
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR |
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Practice Management Insight |
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National Thank You Month National Medical Group Management Week |
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Substance Abuse and Misuse in Older Adults |
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Now available in ThinkHealth is Therapeutic Foster Care! You can input your TFC treatment plans that include your foster parents problems and goals. Enjoy special TFC assessments that help you fill out your treatment plan for well rounded TFC patient care. Features include: Assessment module Document management Progress notes Daily and weekly parent notes Alerts for daily and weekly notes Digital signatures And much more! Call Today! |
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Therapeutic Foster Care now available in ThinkHealth |
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Oklahoma Health Home Learning Collaborative |
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Though not obviously as severe and dangerous as substance abuse among younger people, substance abuse and misuse by older adults can have a terrible impact on the lives of both those who have a problem and on their friends and families. Substance abuse and misuse contribute to impaired social relationships and inability to participate in the kinds of activities that help older adults age well. |
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Voluntary 2015 Edition EHR Certification Criteria (“2015 Edition”) Proposed Rule The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have announced a new timeline for meaningful use (MU) Stage 3’s expected start date. This timeline provides ONC the opportunity to begin to shift its regulatory approach to a more incremental and frequent approach of publishing rules (every 12 to 18 months) that would benefit the industry and enable ONC to: A) Adapt certification regulations to more effectively and efficiently respond to stakeholder feedback and support HHS delivery of reform and clinical transformation programs that may seek to leverage health IT certification. B) Better ONC’s regulations by making “bug fixes” and other regulatory improvements as part of a more frequent rulemaking cycle. C) Chart a course toward enhanced interoperability, information exchange, quality improvement, patient engagement, and patient safety that gives health IT developers more ability to predict ONC’s potential next steps. D) Deliver smaller, incremental regulatory requirements that are easier to integrate into software development cycles. |
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Do you have all of your facts about EHR? |
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A place where individuals can come throughout their lifetimes to have their health care needs identified and to receive the medical, behavioral and social supports they need, coordinated in a way that recognizes all of their needs as an individual, not just patients. Health Homes is a Medicaid State Plan option that provides an opportunity to build a person-centered system of care that achieves improved outcomes and better services and value for the Oklahoma SoonerCare program. The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS) has partnered with Oklahoma Health Care Authority OHCA to expand upon the patient-centered medical home model and existing behavioral health case management and System of Care (SOC) infrastructure to provide coordinated primary and behavioral health integration. The systematic coordination of general and behavioral healthcare. Integrating mental health, substance abuse, and primary care services produces the best outcomes and proves the most effective approach to caring for people with multiple healthcare needs. |