OSIS Insights

At OSIS, we have many different roles that support Community Health Centers (CHCs) around the country. Our new Day in the Life blog series is here to help you understand the ins and outs of our team and how we support the Members of the OSIS Network. This month we interviewed Brandon, a NextGen EHR Specialist II.  Let’s take a closer look at the daily routine of an OSIS NextGen EHR Subject Matter Expert (SME) and explore the challenges and rewards of this exciting role:

At OSIS, we are kicking off the Health Center Program Uniform Data System (UDS) reporting season with Members around our Network. As we’re preparing for crunch time, whether a seasoned veteran or it’s the first time reporting, quality measure data validation can become quite chaotic for all. In this post and in a recent OSIS Webinar Series: Quality Measure Data Validation 101, we go back to the basics of quality measure data validation to help keep your health center on track for 2022 reporting. “Going back to the basics is the simplest way to find calm in the chaos.” Author Unknown 

OSIS is a non-profit technology services organization dedicated to providing expert NextGen Healthcare technology assistance exclusively to Community Health Centers (CHCs) around the country. Did you know that your health center could partner with OSIS for grants, collaborative agreements, or other funding opportunities whether you are an OSIS Member or not? Through the OSIS Health Center Controlled Network (HCCN), health centers can receive additional support at no-cost as a participating health center (PHC) for federally funded OSIS projects.

Is your practice clicking or creating a lot of steps when creating orders? How can we make it more user-friendly, streamlined, and efficient? Does your staff know how to configure and setup favorites in the NextGen Electronic Health Record (EHR) Orders Module? If you missed the recent session in the OSIS Webinar Series – Getting the Most Out of The Orders Module, this post discusses how the NextGen Orders Module can be set up more efficiently to reduce provider and staff clicks when ordering and managing tests and results.  

Healthcare providers are adapting at different paces when it comes to improving healthcare interoperability. This is a top priority for clinicians, health systems, and patients for ease of access into digital health information. Healthcare interoperability is a topic that some see as a barrier, but others have embraced technology and are progressing. To highlight the progress and the barriers of healthcare interoperability, we need to first look at what defines it.  

In this article, we will highlight Right of Access in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule and the NextGen PHI Log, a template in NextGen to use when releasing protected health information (PHI). Before we review the NextGen PHI Log, we will highlight key HIPAA Privacy Rules, discuss HIPAA requirements for providing medical records to patients (Right of Access), and then review the NextGen PHI Log Template.  

To maximize the EHR Medication Module’s potential and to help streamline your processes, we have drawn together some unique settings, preferences, and workflow options that are available. The Medication Module can be used for medication reconciliation, troubleshooting medication dispensing issues, importing Medication History, and more.  

In this article, we will discuss how to make the Medication Module work for you by adjusting specific User-Level Configuration and Practice Configuration preferences.