Meaningful Use Incentive Software Vendor Checklist
Behavioral health providers have the unprecedented opportunity to receive Medicaid/Medicare incentives payments for the Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records (EHR). It is critical to ensure your software partner can provide you with the functionality, expertise and resources to enable
you to meet the criteria for Meaningful Use. We encourage you to use the following checklist as a guide to ask your current and potential future software partners for specific answers.
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Does your EHR meet Meaningful Use requirements and can it achieve ARRA certification? Yes, our EHR has been evaluated against the ARRA requirements and can meet the ARRA certification testing requirements.
Do you provide a consumer Web portal that meets the requirement of providing consumers Yes, we provide ConsumerConnect, a Web portal that enables consumers to access their health information, view and record
with access to their health information? medications, fill out journals, schedule appointments and communicate with their care teams.
Yes, our InfoScriber service is an electronic prescribing solution designed for behavioral health and processes over 3,000,000
Do you provide e-prescribing that is designed specifically for behavioral health? prescriptions per year.
Do you provide computerized physician order entry both for outpatient facilities (non-
medication) and inpatient (medication and non-medication) orders? Yes, we have a comprehensive order entry solution for inpatient and outpatient facilities.
Do you have a solution for Health Information Exchange (HIE) Connectivity to meet the
Meaningful Use requirement for sharing clinical information? Yes, our CareConnect solution provides connectors to share clinical information with other providers and HIEs.
Do you have technology to help me submit information to immunization registries and public
health agencies? Yes, we provide HL7 interfaces to enable the submission of this information.
Can you provide a matrix that shows exactly how your products map to the Meaningful Use
criteria? Yes, we have a matrix that shows how our Avatar and CMHC/MIS systems map to each Meaningful Use criterion.
Can you provide a development roadmap to show what new functionality you are building to
support Meaningful Use? Yes, we have a detailed roadmap that shows all new development required to fill the gap for Meaningful Use.
Yes, our Avatar software achieved CCHIT Ambulatory certification in 2006 and was the first behavioral health software
Do you have experience obtaining certification? certified.
We have staff dedicated to the certification process, including mapping our software functionality to the test criteria in order
What are your plans to attain certification? to attain ARRA certification for our Avatar and CMHC/MIS product lines for behavioral health.
Do you have any staff officially participating on any certification committees? Yes, one of our Senior Clinical Consultants is a member of the CCHIT Behavioral Health Workgroup.
Do you have the human and financial resources to attain certification? (It is estimated that the Yes, as the largest provider of software to the behavioral health market, we are able to dedicate staff to the certification
cost for vendors to achieve certification will exceed $2 million). process and have a strong financial base to commit the investment required to attain certification.
Yes, our Executive Vice President of Corporate Development is active in Washington working on the legislation and the efforts
to get behavioral health included in Medicaid/Medicare incentives. His activities in this complex effort include participating in
Do you have staff responsible for following the complex ARRA legislation and working on behalf The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare's Hill Day, meeting with the U.S. Congress Mental Health Caucus,
of the behavioral health industry? and working with a other groups to lobby on behalf of our industry.
Please visit www.ntst.com/meaningfuluse for more information or call 800.421.7503, Option 6.