OSIS Insights

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.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and a time to focus our efforts on fighting cybercrime and educating one another on keeping our personal and company data safe. The theme of Cybersecurity Awareness month is Do Your Part. Be Cyber Smart and encourage people and organizations to learn new security behaviors, strengthen learned behaviors, and raise awareness about cybercrime threats. At OSIS, helping our Members protect extremely sensitive information is one of our highest priorities through set policies and procedures to ensure we are exceeding all standards set forth in the HIPAA Security Rules. In this post, we will discuss how practices can improve their cyber hygiene, resources that can help prevent a ransom attack, and discuss the preparation needed to make health centers cyber ready.  

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.  

Medicaid Promoting Interoperability Program Attestation 

We are just a quarter away from the end of 2021, and deadlines for the Medicaid Promoting Interoperability Attestation for 2021 are quickly approaching. Do not miss out on incentive payments from showing adoption, implementation, upgrades, or meaningful use of certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is dedicated to improving interoperability and patient access to health information. Each state may have different requirements for attestation deadlines for the final reporting year ranging from July to October 2021. For any specific questions surrounding those deadlines, we encourage reaching out to your respective state EHR Incentive program administrator. 

Are you using NextGen Practice Management (PM) Tasks functionality to its full capacity? Does your staff know how to configure and use tasks to assist patients with their individual needs? In this post, we will discuss how workable tasks can be designed to the business rules and policies for your  organization and walk-through initial setup and workflow.

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.  

Has your health center received Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition and is working towards Annual Reporting submission?  If so, you may find this blog helpful, as OSIS navigates through NCQA’s Q-PASS system for Annual Reporting (AR), which is also known as the Sustaining Phase.  

With the administration of millions of doses of the COVID-19 Vaccines across the world, we have inevitably seen a corresponding increase in vaccine scams. With the vaccine distribution information and guidelines changing day to day and state to state, it can be difficult to identify what is true and what is false.  

In this article we will discuss seven pre- and post-vaccine scams to be aware of to help prevent scam artists from taking advantage of your patients’ personal information.