Nashville Area Indian Health Service 2011 Annual Report

PRIORITY THREE: IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF AND ACCESS TO CARE.
Electronic Health Record & Meaningful Use
The Nashville Area has 20 Tribes (3 federal and 17 Tribal sites) that provide
direct patient care services. Inpatient Computerized Provider Order Entry
(CPOE) has been implemented in two hospitals (100% of sites) in the
Nashville Area. Computerized Provider Order Entry in outpatient settings
has been implemented with seven Nashville Area Tribes (35% of sites). An
additional 10 Tribes (50% of sites) are ready to implement CPOE in the near
future. Another three Tribes (15% of sites) are currently scheduled for EHR
on-site setups to move towards CPOE to assist in improving quality, safety,
efficiency and reducing disparities in the Nashville Area.
Since October 2010, the Nashville Area Office of Public Health (OPH),
Department of Information Resource Management (DIRM), and the Office
of Information Technology (OIT) Deployment Team have collaborated to
conduct the Nashville Area EHR site visits at two federal sites and seven
tribal sites to prepare for MU. Meaningful Use Overviews and Assessments
have been provided to each tribe currently utilizing EHR as well as other
Tribes in the EHR implementation process to assist them in understanding
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Meaningful Use of
EHR incentive program requirements.
Statistician Kristina Rogers and EHR Coordinator CDR Robin Bartlett at the USET Annual Meeting & Expo in Choctaw, Mississippi.
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