SuccessEHS Client Among First in the Nation to Attest to Meaningful Use for Medicare

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SuccessEHS client, Mississippi Family Medicine, attested to Meaningful Use for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program on April 26, 2011. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services opened attestation on April 18, 2011. Mississippi Family Medicine completed the attestation process less than 10 days after registration opened, becoming  one of the first providers in the state of Mississippi and in the nation to take that step. To learn more about the Medicare EHR Incentive Program, visit the CMS website at www.cms.gov.

Located in Waynesboro, Mississippi, Mississippi Family Medicine serves the city of Waynesboro and surrounding community by providing quality patient care in a family practice setting.  SuccessEHS's innovative solution and knowledgeable support team equipped Mississippi Family Medicine with the tools and resources they needed to complete each step of the attestation process efficiently and in accordance with the guidelines set forth by CMS. SuccessEHS provides Meaningful Use webinars, a Meaningful Use Toolkit , monitoring of Meaningful Use compliance and other resources to help its clients achieve Meaningful Use.

"To me, having access to the Meaningful Use report was the biggest thing," said Kim Stokely, Practice Manager for Mississippi Family Medicine. "The webinars, whether attended live or via SuccessEHS University, are extremely helpful. The Meaningful Use Toolkit helped us evaluate what measures we had completed and what measures still needed to be met. SuccessEHS made this process much easier - we could not have done it otherwise."

ABOUT SuccessEHS

SuccessEHS is a nationally acclaimed vendor providing a single solution Practice Management and Electronic Health Record. Founded in 1995, SuccessEHS established itself as a leader in the emerging practice management applications market by delivering an innovative blend of clinical, operational and financial software paired with a suite of specialized integrated success services. SuccessEHS, entirely in-house developed and supported, has achieved multiple certifications from CCHIT.

SuccessEHS's SuccessEHS 6.0 is a CCHIT Certified ® 2011 Ambulatory EHR, and additionally certified for Child Health, with a 5-star usability rating; this product received certification as a Complete EHR on September 30, 2010. The clinical quality measures certified include: NQF 0421, NQF 0013, NQF 0028, NQF 0041, NQF 0024, NQF 0038, NQF 0043, NQF 0031, and NQF 0034. The additional software used in testing includes Multum, SuccessEHS Patient Portal, ExitCare Patient Education, and Oracle.

This Complete EHR is 2011/2012 compliant and is certified by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable certification criteria for Eligible Providers adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification neither represents an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services nor guarantees the receipt of incentive payments.

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