Curas, Inc. helps Fremont Family Care Achieve PCMH Level 3 Recognition
Patient-Centered Medical Home Status Emphasizes Patient Care and Meaningful Use of EHR.
- St. Louis, MO-IL (1888PressRelease) September 25, 2014 - Since 2011, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has overseen the Recognition Program which emphasizes patient-centered care in which a primary physician becomes "home" for all care. PCMH, or Patient-Centered Medical Home, will likely become the new model of health care and reimbursements. Medical practices, such as Fremont Family Care located in Fremont, Nebraska and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fremont Health, recently achieved Level 3 Recognition.
Curas, Inc., a St. Louis based healthcare IT firm specializing in eClinicalWorks EHR implementation, worked closely with Fremont Family Care throughout both their Meaningful Use Attestations and the PCMH Recognition Process. Level 3 is the highest Recognition a practice can achieve, with points awarded for factors such as patient access to their health record, identification and management of patient populations, practices for planning, tracking and managing patient care, and systems for reporting and measuring performance.
"Fremont Family Care has been committed to leveraging its eClinicalWorks system to enhance patient care and demonstrate excellence in their pursuit of PCMH Recognition," said Num Pisutha-Arnond, Managing Partner at Curas. "This is a model of providing and managing health care as it relates to all things, including working with all physicians involved in the patient's care, managing hospital visits, and even educating family members about the patient's condition."
PCMH is expected to directly impact the cost of care, and reimbursements to medical practices. A "home-base" management approach to patient care is expected to reduce duplication of services, allow health care providers to become more efficient, and provide better care by leveraging evidence-based medicine through analysis of the patient population to identify and prescribe medications that are working in that population.
"We're moving from a system of managing point-to-point visits to a system where we're truly managing overall health," said Pisutha-Arnond. "Systems and processes need to be put in place for this model, and Curas was able to work with Fremont identify and design the most appropriate workflows while implementing the eClinicalWorks modules and reports to help them achieve this high level of integration, and highest level of recognition for PCMH."
"Fremont Family Care, through its partnership with Curas, has achieved a major strategic initiative. It is becoming increasingly more important to demonstrate the quality of care that our physicians provide. With the designation of PCMH, we feel that this shows our patients that we are serious about providing the highest level of care in the most cost effective manner," said Ryan Bojanski, Administrator - Clinical Services at Fremont Health.
About Curas
Curas is a St. Louis area based health information technology consulting company and one of the top resellers of the eClinicalWorks suite of products for the electronic medical office. From planning through implementation, training and support, Curas has a nationwide reputation for providing the services physicians need to ensure that technology enables their business, not hinders it. Curas' staff of eClinicalWorks certified specialists install the software, train end users, and assist practices with optimizing their office workflow to maximize the benefit they receive from deploying eClinicalWorks' products. Curas maintains its own call center providing Level 1 and Level 2 support to its clients. In addition to locations in Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Hawaii, the firm installs, trains, and supports users at various sites around the United States. Today, Curas supports over 700 physicians in nearly 30 states with practices ranging in size from solo practices to multi-specialty 100 provider practices. Curas was recently named one of the Fastest Growing Companies in St. Louis by the St. Louis Business Journal, and was named to the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Inc. 5000 List of the nation's fastest growing companies. For more information about Curas, visit: www.curas.net.
About Fremont Health
Fremont Health is a 202-bed healthcare facility, serving Dodge County and surrounding counties. Fremont Health is comprised of 90 hospital beds with private rooms and 112 beds of long term care, with private and semiprivate rooms. Located in Fremont, Nebraska, on U.S. Hwy. 30, Fremont Health is the only hospital within the county and is adjacent to several medical office buildings and support services. For more information, visit www.fremonthealth.com.
About eClinicalWorks
eClinicalWorks® is a privately-held leader in ambulatory healthcare IT solutions. With physicians across all 50 states using its solutions, customers include ACOs, physician practices, out-patient departments of hospitals, health centers, departments of health and convenient care clinics. Ten eClinicalWorks customers have received the prestigious HIMSS Davies Awards during the past six years, honoring excellence in electronic health record implementation. The company is second largest in the country for e-prescribing. Based in Westborough, Mass., eClinicalWorks has additional offices in New York City, Chicago, California and Georgia. For more information, please visit www.eclinicalworks.com, Facebook, Twitter or call 866-888-6929.
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