Your practice must ensure that all Protected Health Information being sent and received is safe according to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Criterions eFax Module & Lab Integration enhances compliance with privacy and security rules – including HIPAA, the HITECH Act, and state regulations which streamlines your reporting for meaningful use and audit.
In this webinar, our Associate Product Manager, James Keener, walked our customers through the full capabilities of the Criterions Patient Portal, what your patients can complete before and after their appointments, sending consent forms and questionnaires directly from the EHR system, and more! Watch to learn more about the new patient intake modules and how they can benefit you and your staff today. If you don't have the consent form & questionnaire modules yet, contact sales below to get started!
CMS has made changes to how Evaluation and Management Codes will be calculated beginning Jan 1, 2021. E/M codes will now have the option to ignore History (HPI, ROS, History) and Exam as part of the visit calculation. This shift allows providers to focus more on pertinent clinical documentation and less on data entry. In place of the data requirements from the past, E/M 2021 focusses on Medical Decision Making and Time Spent. This means there are no changes required for templates in 2021 E/M coding.
For 2021, the Criterions EHR is updating the Medical Decision Making calculation to the 2021 standard as well as providing options to select how much time was spent during the visit. The E/M page for Medicare patients will be redesigned to allow providers to use the various methods of calculation.
Enabling these options will be available in the Practice Defaults, allowing for activating the 2021 E/M calculation for Medicare only, or switch to all carriers as others accept the changing rules.
More information regarding E/M 2021 can be found from CMS here.
As part of our goal to provide a trusted and secure platform for our customers, we are implementing a change in security requirements for using Criterions EHR effective August 1, 2020.
We are planning to deprecate vulnerable data encryption protocols (TLS 1.0 & 1.1) and will be supporting TLS 1.2 and newer going forward.
This deprecation will affect you if you use an older browser.
EHR works well with the following Browsers:
• Latest version of Google Chrome
• Latest version of Firefox
• Latest version of Microsoft Edge
How can practices gather the information they need from patients for effective medical treatment while contact is limited to the minimal amount necessary?
Criterions EHR has an available patient portal that allows patients to document information while at home. The capabilities of this portal are currently being expanded to cover more of the intake process and reduce a patient’s time in the office. To achieve these goals, Criterions is working on the following new function for patients to populate information at home:
One hurdle many practices are facing is how to capture consent forms from the patient from home. Our new solution will allow practices to assign consent forms (HIPAA Waivers, Agreements to Pay, etc.) to the patient to be signed though the portal. Signed or declined forms will be filed in the patient’s documents.
We are also working on a few other initiatives including:
- Scanning and uploading driver’s license/insurance
- Custom questionnaires for your patients
- Text messaging to check in
We would love feedback from our current customers on these initiatives. If you would like to participate in a survey to help us learn how to best implement these new functionalities to benefit your practice, please reach out to Mark Greenleaf at mark.greenleaf@criterions.com.
In compliance with HIPAA regulations we are updating our Business Associate Agreement with all Criterions ‘Covered Entities (clients). This is mandatory for us to service your account.
To simplify this requirement and eliminate any question for conformity, we have reproduced the latest sample template provided on the Health and Human Services’ website.
To update your BAA with Criterions, please complete the form at: https://form.jotform.com/criterions/hipaa
There is no need to print this form as it will be electronically signed with a copy emailed to you upon completion. Thank you.