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Proprietary Meaningful Use Methodology

Our Meaningful Use (MU) Methodology (powered by Fulcrum Methods) is designed to assist healthcare providers in qualifying for reimbursement incentives associated with the adoption of EHRs under ARRA. The methodology comprises a set of tools that will allow clients to do the following:

	Evaluate current EHR capabilities against MU criteria and measures
	Evaluate and optimize clinical workflows to support MU requirements
	Identify gaps and deficiencies between current systems, workflows, and MU requirements
	Estimate resources and efforts required to close identified gaps
	Establish business models associated with MU stimulus payments
	Educate staff with respect to ARRA and MU requirements
	Establish organizational governance and oversight efforts around MU
	Manage risk associated with the process of meeting MU criteria
	Regularly review up-to-date MU status reports
	Maximize economic benefits from EHR stimulus funding
	Prepare for future changes to Meaningful Use objectives and measures

The toolset will consist of an online interactive engine that will assist with evaluating current EHR capabilities, identifying gaps and deficiencies between current systems, and generating up-to-date status reports; a work plan which follows a typical work breakdown structure and includes pre-established dependencies, durations and resource estimates that will assist with optimizing clinical workflows, estimating resources required to close identified gaps, establishing governance, maximizing economic benefits, and preparing for future MU phases; our guidebook, a step-by-step “how-to” manual for completing work plan tasks; and a library of deliverables that will provide governance charters, risk management plans, issue logs, and cost-benefit spreadsheets, among a number of other items.

For more information on DIVURGENT’s Meaningful Use Methodology, email meaningfuluse@DIVURGENT.com.