agreement for infrastructure improve- ments and job incentives to help UIW build a new, private, downtown osteo- pathic medical school with an estimated $50 million price tag. The new osteopathic medical school, in addition to two new University of Texas System medical schools, will bring the total number of medical schools in Texas to 12. The combined class size for the two new UT schools will be 100 (50 per school). The class size for the new osteopathic school will be 150, for a combined total of 250 for the three new schools, which anticipate accepting their first classes in fall 2016.
New Stage 2 meaningful use tool
Reduce Your Costs and Workplace Injuries.
It’s the Prescription for Great Savings.
Te Texas Medical Group combines your business with other health care businesses to provide workers’ comp premium discounts and job-specific safety resources. As a member of the Texas Medical Group Safety Group, eligible businesses may also qualify for both group and individual dividends and receive a discount for choosing the health care network option.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Infor- mation Technology (ONC) have a new tool to help you meet the meaningful use Stage 2 transitions of care measure. Visit
http://go.cms.gov/1dP2GFD for more about Stage 2.
The EHR Randomizer allows physi- cians to exchange data with a designat- ed test electronic health record (EHR) system to meet part of the measure. The transitions of care requirement includes three measures. The EHR Randomizer assists in meeting the third measure, which requires you to:
• Conduct at least one successful elec- tronic exchange of a summary-of-care document with a recipient who has an EHR technology developed by a different company, or
• Conduct at least one successful test with the CMS designated test EHR during the EHR reporting period.
Contact your agent or Diannah Tatum at (806) 792-5564 or email
info@tmgworkcomp.com.
Visit us at
www.texasmedicalgroupwcprogram.com. Dividends are based on performance and are not guaranteed.
For more information about the tran- sitions of care requirement, visit http://
go.cms.gov/1iJXntS. CMS and ONC have chosen McKesson and Meditech as test EHRs. The agencies have asked other EHR technology developers to par- ticipate in the test program. To use the EHR Randomizer:
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