Tips on Achieving Stage 1 Meaningful Use from those who've done it
PINE BLUFF, AR – As one of the first hospitals in the country due to receive a stimulus check – having achieved Stage 1 meaningful use after implementing the Sunrise Clinical Manager EHR from Allscripts – Jefferson Regional Medical Center (JRMC), in Pine Bluff, Ark., is not sitting on its laurels.
While hospital executives and staff await approximately $3 million in Stage 1 incentives, Patrick Neece, JRMC's chief information officer, and Andy Jenkins, its administrative director of information systems, are already working toward landing $8 million more by reaching Stages 2 and 3.
Neece and Jenkins offered some insight, advice and encouragement for other hospitals looking to follow in their footsteps.
Patrick Neece: We definitely are extremely proud of the accomplishment. It's some weight off our shoulders, but now we're looking at Stage 2 – so it's not over yet. But we do feel good about the first steps that we've made, and everybody on our staff here is very happy with the results.
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Did You Know...
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2. 80% of company documents are stored on local hard drives and therefore inaccessible to organization staff unless they are created on paper
3. On average, companies spend $20 in labor filing one document
4. Between 2 and 4% of documents are misfiled on any given day
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6. 1 out of every 20 documents is lost
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