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The Meaningful Use Support You Need

REACH is your one stop shop for valuable education and services.

Use our library of resources and webinar playbacks to prepare yourself for the path to meaningful use.

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REACH can provide you with the critical support you need to meet the meaningful use requirements.

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Upcoming Events

HIMSS Spring Health IT Conference

Thursday, June 20, 2013
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Central Time

Hilton Garden Inn
Fargo, ND

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Latest from REACH

Privacy and Security Meaningful Use Requirement – HIPAA Readiness Review

Are you ready? HIPAA Privacy and Security Requirements are embedded in Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs through the following requirements:

  • Eligible Provider (EP) Core Measure #15, and,
  • Eligible...
REACH Collaborates with Rural Stakeholders to Provide Value to CAHs and Rural Hospitals

From the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT (ONC) - REACH is implementing strategies that encourage knowledge sharing and collaborative problem solving among rural health information technology...

Local Health System Recognized as Leader in Implementation of Electronic Health Records

[Watford City, N.D.] – Local health care provider McKenzie County Healthcare Systems is being recognized Thursday, December 29, 2011, by the Regional Extension Center for Health Information Technology (REACH) for its leadership in the nationwide...

What we do

The Regional Extension Assistance Center for HIT (REACH) works with you to improve the quality and value of care you deliver, through adopting and meaningfully using an EHR.

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Making EHR Work for You and Your Patients

Consultants from the Regional Extension Assistance Center for HIT (REACH), a nonprofit federal HIT Regional Extension Center, can help you get EHR right. REACH services are available to Minnesota and North Dakota providers of all types and sizes across the continuum of care.

REACH will work with all eligible providers, regardless of which ATCB certified product they choose to achieve meaningful use.

REACH works with you to improve the quality and value of care you deliver, through adopting and meaningfully using an EHR.

Our clients >

State and National News

Medicare Eligible Professionals: How to avoid payment adjustments

Medicare eligible professionals (EPs) who do not demonstrate meaningful use for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program may be subject to payment adjustments beginning on January 1, 2015. Because payment...

July 3rd is an Important EHR Deadline for Medicare Eligible Hospitals and CAHs

 July 3, 2013 is last day that eligible hospitals andcritical access hospitals (CAHs) in their first year of participation ofthe Medicare EHR Incentive Program can begin their 90-day reportingperiod to demonstrate meaningful use for Fiscal...

Policy Guidance on the 2015 Minnesota Interoperable EHR Mandate

To help health and health care providers from a variety of settings meet the intentions of this mandate, the MDH Office of Health Information Technology (OHIT) has produced a policy guidance to clarify...

Minnesota e-Health Brief: Rural Providers

Presents E-Health Profile assessment results focusing on rural health care providers in three settings: ambulatory clinics; hospitals; and, nursing homes.

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