In this issue:
Doctors position internal medicine practice for the future

Illinois Rural HealthNet: A Bridge to the Future

Fox Valley Practice Successfully Attests to Meaningful Use of EHRs

Two pass
HITPRO Exams

Best in KLAS Awards unveiled

ONC Launches Healthy New Year Video Challenge

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February 2012Issue: 6

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Greetings!

Welcome to the February 2012 issue of the IL-HITREC INTERCHANGE. This newsletter is your resource for news and information on the REC program in Illinois.


Doctors position internal medicine practice for the future

    Doctors Kevin and Angela Egly in Sandwich, IL, have a unique approach to using electronic health records in their primary care practice. Drs. Egly are both board-certified internal medicine physicians who have been practicing for 14 years. In 2004, they decided to make a change in their professional and personal lives and set-up practice on their own. The doctors looked carefully at what was going on in healthcare and what they thought would be impending changes. Read the complete article…


Illinois Rural HealthNet: A Bridge to the Future

    Illinois Rural HealthNet (IRHN), funded by a Federal Communications Commission rural pilot grant and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, provides connectivity between rural health facilities throughout Illinois.
    With IRHN and other similar types of transport networks, the state at some point in the very near future will be linked in a way that never would have been imagined five years ago. The goal is to develop a high-speed broadband network that enjoys the security of a private network in which to share large radiology files and connect healthcare organizations to each other. Read the complete article…


Fox Valley Practice Successfully Attests
to Meaningful Use of EHRs

    The Illinois Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (IL-HITREC), along with its service partner SA Ignite, Inc., recently celebrated the successful attestation milestone reached by Fox Valley Women and Children’s Health Partners, in St. Charles. The practice successfully attested to receive Medicare’s Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) Stage 1 incentive payment. It was the first practice in the nation to use SA Ignite’s MU Assistant cloud-based solution to electronically file its attestation to CMS. Read the complete article…


Two pass HITPRO Exams

    Congratulations to Dan Picard and Jessie Watral for passing the Health Information Technology Professional Exam. Read the complete article…


Best in KLAS Awards unveiled

    KLAS unveiled its annual "Best in KLAS Awards" for software and professional services in 2011. The list ranks the best-performing healthcare IT vendors in more than 100 market segments based on ratings from over 18,000 interviews with healthcare providers. Epic was the top-ranked overall software vendor with a score of 87.1 out of 100. MaxIT Healthcare garnered top ratings for professional services, with an 88.7 score.
    Previously known as "Top 20 Best in KLAS," the research firm has renamed the awards "Best in KLAS," and surveyed new market segments in the report, including clinical decision support products, self-service patient kiosks and more. Read the complete article…


ONC Launches Healthy New Year Video Challenge

    The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has launched the Healthy New Year Video Challenge. It is the first in a series of video challenges through which the public will get a chance to share personal stories about how they use health information technology (health IT) to have a positive impact on their own health or the health of a loved one. Read the complete article…