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NYC REACH is dedicated to helping physicians in New York City meet the federal requirements for Meaningful Use of an EHR.

Choosing the best electronic health record for your practice is a time-consuming process. To help, we offer group discounts, selection assistance, and training after you install the system. NYC REACH members can take advantage of our free and for cost services to make the process as simple as possible:

NYC REACH Overview of Services

EHR Education and Adoption Services:
Educates providers in private practices, community health centers and hospital ambulatory facilities on the importance of EHR adoption and Meaningful Use. Assists providers needing an EHR. or those needing to upgrade, with finding a proven EHR for a discounted rate.
Vendor Selection Support:
Assists providers in organizing their EHR vendor search and to provide a framework on how to select the most appropriate EHR for your practice. We can help providers narrow down over 1,000 product certified EHRs to the one that fits your practice's needs. We provide product overviews, vendor contacts, and implementation and Meaningful Use classes.
Implementation Support:
Assists health care facilities to successfully implement EHRs by sharing best practices in IT infrastructure assessment, project management, workflow analysis, and vendor relations. We can assist in coordinating and managing third-party interfaces and services, including laboratories, e-prescribing and immunization registries to ensure these services are installed and ready for use.
Clinical Quality Consulting:
Provides on-site coaching sessions on EHR-enabled workflow redesign for key disease areas (cardiovascular chronic diseases, smoking, obesity, vaccinations and cancer screenings) based on the Medical Home and Chronic Care Model. We assist providers on clinical and administrative workflow redesign and optimization and setting up templates to fit your practice.
Billing Support:
Provides on-site trainings on the EHR, including billing workflow redesign and focused teachings on how to correctly document and bill for preventive services and counseling.
Privacy and Security:
Trains and educates providers on privacy and security issues related to staffing, hardware, network infrastructure, policies and procedures and data integrity.
Meaningful Use Curriculum
Educates providers on the requirements for Meaningful Use, billing best practices, front office basics, clinical essentials, and how-to use specific functions in your EHR. Classes are both in-person�and online. We also have an online resource library with a variety of self-help tools.
Quality Reporting and Measurement:
Manages a quality reporting database that receives quality measures from participating practices, conducts quality assurance on that data, gives providers quality report cards, and works with payers to develop robust Pay-for-Performance programs based on EHR-derived quality measures.
Health Information Exchange:
Supports secure standardized electronic data exchange between EHR-enabled primary care providers and laboratories, hospitals, insurers, and public health (immunization registry, school health, disease reporting).

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