New Heights Consulting, LLC Founder and Managing Principal, Denise Reeser, will be participating on a panel entitled “The Path to Electronic Health Record Implementation" at the Maryland Association of Health Care Executives (MAHCE) all day educational event to be held Thursday, September 15, 2011 at The Conference Center at Sheppard Pratt.  MAHCE, the local chapter of the American College of Health Care Executives (ACHE), was founded in 1973 as a forum for professional development and interchange among senior-level health care executives. www.mahce.ache.org

Denise Reeser, New Heights Consulting, LLC Founder and Managing Principal, delivered the keynote remarks and presented on the Electronic Health Network Accreditation Commission’s Health Information Exchange Criteria at the West Virginia HIMSS Meeting June 16 th and June 17 th at the Stonewall Resort in Roanoke, West Virginia. The conference was attended by health information technology professionals from West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

New Heights Consulting, LLC as a subcontractor to Koss on Care was awarded three contracts from the Maryland Health Commission related to consumer HIE awareness and trust, education and outreach, and access plan development. The contracted work began immediately and is scheduled to conclude in December.

New Heights Consulting, LLC Founder and Managing Principal, Denise Reeser, is quoted on the HIMSS Blog. Read Denise’s answer to the speaker interview question “There is a lot of attention in the country in regards to the healthcare industry, and its efforts to more effectively provide care to healthcare consumers.  From your perspective, what efforts do you believe will be of the most benefit to the industry itself?  What efforts will be of the most benefit to healthcare consumers?”  at

http://blog.himss.org/2011/05/23/on-affecting-change-views-from-june-2011-himss-virtual-conference-speakers/

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New Heights Consulting, LLC and the Maryland Health Care Commission have been selected to present at the June 2011 HIMSS Virtual Conference. The presentation entitled “Maryland Medical Assistance Program Electronic Health Record Environmental Scan” will share the results of an environmental scan administered October 2010 through January 2011 to assess the level of EHR adoption among eligible physicians (EPs) and their level of readiness to meet the meaningful use requirements as outlined in the Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Program. The environmental scan comprised of a survey and focus groups, helped to determine what assistance providers needed to adopt an EHR, meet the meaningful use requirements, and subsequently qualify for the Medicaid EHR incentive payments.

New Heights Consulting, LLC will continue to work with the Greater Baltimore Medical Center on their physician electronic health record (EHR) strategy assisting with implementation oversight and project management.

New Heights Consulting, LLC and strategic partner, Strategies for Tomorrow, Inc. assisted PAeHI with the development of this up-to-date report on HIE sustainability. See the PAeHI website (www.paehi.org) to download a copy of the executive summary or contact PAeHI for a copy of the entire report.

New Heights Consulting, LLC was recently awarded a contract by the Maryland Health Care Commission to conduct an environmental scan of electronic health record adoption among Eligible Providers outlined in the HITECH Act and Medical Assistance primary care providers. The environmental scan will determine the providers’ level of readiness to meet the meaningful use requirements and identify what providers report they need from Medicaid to support electronic health record adoption. New Heights will also gain an understanding of the barriers that exist among the providers and develop recommendations for mitigation.

New Heights Consulting, LLC continues consulting assistance to the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. New Heights has been selected to assist GBMC with an assessment of their core Hospital Information System and their employed physician system to determine the degree to which the systems can comply with the Meaningful Use regulatory requirements. New Heights will also develop an implementation roadmap.

New Heights Consulting, LLC continues to work with Wavelength Information Services, Inc. in the planning and implementation of their Maryland Regional Extension Center Management Services Organization Program. Denise Reeser is working with Wavelength’s President, Murray Oltman, to provide education and outreach to physicians, hospital administrations, etc.

 

Wavelength Information Services, Inc. is a Maryland based outsourcing and systems integration firm, located in Berlin , Maryland (www.wavelengthis.com).

Denise Reeser, New Heights ’ Founder and Managing Principal, presented a Meaningful Use Overview as part of a webinar sponsored by Insight Health Solutions. Click here for a copy of the slides: Meaningful Use Webinar 2010-07-28 FINAL.

New Heights Consulting, LLC has been awarded a contract to assist Greater Baltimore Medical Center with health information technology strategic planning. The project will involve assessing the current environment and proposing recommendations and next steps.

Denise Reeser, New Heights ’ Founder and Managing Principal, has been selected to be an Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) consultant. In this capacity, Ms. Reeser will perform site reviews for organizations that are interested in obtaining accreditation as a Maryland Management Service Organization (MSO) under the Regional Extension Center Program. Ms. Reeser will work with EHNAC to review MSO self-assessments, perform the site reviews, and prepare site review reports.

New Heights Consulting, LLC and subcontractor Strategies for Tomorrow (SFT), have recently been selected to assist the Pennsylvania eHealth Initiative (PAeHI) in conducting health information exchange financing research and developing a financial sustainability framework. Using their industry expertise and knowledge, New Heights and SFT will work with Pennsylvania stakeholders throughout the next several months in developing health information exchange sustainability model options.