CHIME recognizes Memorial Healthcare, Iatric Systems
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has awarded Iatric Systems, a health IT integration company, and its customer Mich.-based Memorial Healthcare, its 2014 Collaboration Award.
The award was presented during the CHIME CIO Fall Forum in San Antonio, Texas.
CHIME’s award recognizes collaborations between healthcare facilities and technology vendors that successfully solve a problem.
In the case of Memorial Healthcare and Iatric Systems, they partnered to help the 150-bed hospital remain on track in attesting to Stage 1 Meaningful Use. Iatric Systems developed Meaningful Use ManagerTM, which Memorial Healthcare used to aggregate data from multiple systems and automate its tracking and reporting processes. The collaboration enabled Memorial Healthcare to attest for Meaningful Use Stage 1 on time, and the hospital currently is slated to attest for Stage 2.
Collaborating together, the entities also added special capabilities to Meaningful Use Manager so managers could drill down into a core measure’s granular details, which helped with stakeholder buy-in.
“Meaningful Use is complex and confusing, and if you don't know your status for each objective, it gets exponentially more difficult,” said Frank Fear, vice president of ancillary services and CIO at Memorial Healthcare. “Iatric Systems has been a huge part of our success. By bringing clarity to our Meaningful Use tracking and reporting, we were able to see where we needed to change process in order to meet Meaningful Use requirements on time.”
The Meaningful Use Manager solution also assisted Memorial Healthcare when it was audited by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.