Cloud-based Microsoft Exchange service features all the mission critical enterprise-class communication and collaboration capabilities of an in-house solution without the unpredictable costs and management headaches. With flexible customization options, healthcare organizations can seamlessly move to a cloud-based solution without compromising security or altering their current encryption approach.

The CMS EHR Incentive program (commonly known as Meaningful Use) is not just about getting all providers to use EHRs. It’s creating a foundation of detail clinical and administrative data – all expressed in the same standard vocabulary – that can be used to automate the calculation and reporting of patient outcomes. With the shift from volume to value in care delivery and reimbursement models, comprehensive quality measures are an essential element – else how can we determine value? But the historical approach to measuring quality using manually abstracted data will not work in a healthcare environment focused on value. Quality metrics must be automated. The industry must shift to eMeasures – metrics calculated and reported based on data captured in the EHR as a by-product of care delivery. This spring, CMS published the timeline for implementing a unified set of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) and e-reporting requirements intended to synchronize and integrate CMS quality programs and reduce provider reporting burden. Are you prepared to embark on the journey to the new generation of quality measures and reporting?

The regulatory environment continues to become more stringent as HIPAA regulations require nearly every healthcare organization to maintain an easily accessible and complete archive of electronically stored information (ESI). Healthcare IT departments are pulled in many directions in order to stay aligned with federal requirements for access control, integrity, and transmission security for patient communications or implementing Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems. Managing communication systems is an unnecessary burden that ultimately distracts IT teams from contributing towards the improvement of patient care. Today, healthcare providers can turn to hosted services to more easily meet the security and privacy requirements for electronic Protected Health Information laid out in the HIPAA Security Rule, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s HITECH requirements, and other federal regulations.

Molina Healthcare providers managed healthcare services for over 4.3 million people in 16 states. Rajendra Kadam, IT Director at Molina Healthcare,will review the process of doctor authorizations at Monila and the improved efficiencies in implementing a fax server.

Health and Life Sciences (HLS) organizations are leveraging Microsoft Office as a clinically relevant platform that creates and optimizes a collaborative and securely connected healthcare ecosystem. With Microsoft’s commitment to enabling regulatory and mandated compliance our cloud services and solutions enable HLS organizations to reduce the costs of infrastructure, maintenance, and development; to eliminate complexity; and to increase productivity.