WVMI experts delve into meaningful use at MGMA conference

Director of Patient Safety Patty Ruddick spoke about meaningful use. Health Information Technology RN Project Coordinator Terri Bliziotes talked about quality measures, while Information Security Officer Scott Brannon discussed security.

The goal of the Medical Group Management Association is to improve the group practice of medicine, so as to better serve physicians and patients.
WVMI partnered with the Community Health Network and the West Virginia Health Improvement Institute, which served as the lead agency in forming the West Virginia Regional Health Information Technology Center. WVRHITEC’s objective is to help 1,000 eligible health care providers become meaningful users of health IT by 2014, which means they will qualify for federal health IT incentive payments.

The federally funded project helps educate and guide state health care providers that have adopted electronic health record systems, as well as those that have not.