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Hospital management company becomes one of the first providers to achie ve "Meaningful Use"

With the passage of the HITECH Act in 2009, many U.S. hospitals decided to implement electronic health records (EHRs) to gain more than $20 billion in incentives available to those meeting the “Meaningful Use” criteria outlined in the Act. To meet Meaningful Use criteria, hospitals and physicians were faced with challenges in understanding EHR requirements and finding the solutions to meet those requirements in a very short time frame. With so much change needed so quickly, the client turned to North Highland to ensure the right solution was deployed, in the right way, to maximize its incentive payments.

Meaningful Use efforts need far more than just IT project management and governance. The complexity of the new legislation required an entirely integrated, larger scaled clinical transformation effort. North Highland was tasked with providing an overview of the intended effects of Meaningful Use across the organization, including IT, clinical operations, administration, and finance and prepared the client for the broader organizational goals.

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