May 31, 2015

ICD-10 is on track to go live in October 2015. This will affect you as a provider. Medical Staff with active membership at Salem Hospital will be required to take training modules in HealthStream starting in mid-June. These training modules come from Precyse University  and will include both general and specialty-specific trainings.  The MEC and physician coalition determined the Precyse system to be the most comprehensive education option available.   

Since the Precyse trainings are intended for providers only, we also wanted to mention that the Oregon Medical Association is offering web-based training on ICD-10 as well. CME on specialty specific ICD-10 transition, ICD-10 clinical documentation and on-demand ICD-10-CM specialty training series for coders could be useful for your office staff or as a supplement to your Precyse trainings. The specifics are outlined on the Oregon Medical Association  website.     

If you already have CME for ICD-10, please submit it to Kelli Fussell for the MEC to consider waiving the requirement.  

 If you have questions, please contact Claire O'Brien, MD.

Continue to watch Common Ground for more detail. 

On Monday, June 8, outpatient rehabilitation programs will transition to Epic Ambulatory. Outpatient Rehab has 45 physical, occupational, and speech therapists at Center Street and Work Injury Management that will make the transition in June. Psychologists have been using Epic for several months now. West Valley Hospital therapists will transition later this summer.

For those of you using Epic, we will continue to receive orders via CPOM, and you will now be able to view therapy notes in chart review, if relevant to your work.

During the month of June, we will work hard to take care of all our patients. We will reduce schedules to allow for training and a learning curve, so please know we are working to minimize any delay in scheduling appointments for patients with one of our therapists.

If you do receive a fax or other communication with patient information that is poorly formatted, please let Phil Haworth know so we can correct the problem.