Medical Director's Corner: Just So YOU Know

Volume 2, Issue 3

Medical Director's Corner: Just so YOU know

Hello friends,

Summer is sizzling in Rochester! I hope you all are enjoying the weather, your family and work. In this issue, I would like to draw your attention to the MyCommunity Profile section in the RHIO Provider Portal after the login.

It is of critical importance that we —and all of you —have accurate contact information so we can reach out to each other after an encounter in order to provide better patient care. Under the Patient Care Network (PCN) section in RHIO Explore, you can view inpatient ambulatory encounters and the contact information associated with those visits from various community data sources. Rochester RHIO has a tool to support corrections to this contact information. This information can only be corrected by the individual provider.

Tarun Kothari, MD, FACG, FACP

Medical Director

MyCommunity Profile is located on the last tab on the right on the RHIO Provider Portal landing page, right after the login. If you are a Provider, click the far right tab to view your profile and submit any corrections for the Patient Care Network contact information. Verify your email and update. After you submit updated information to Rochester RHIO, you will get an email in few days after the RHIO's Support team has corroborated the submitted information.

On another note, many in our community have not taken advantage of the New York State DEIP grants (up to $13,000!). Please contact our Support Center at 1-877-865-7446 (RHIO) to check your eligibility. Let us help you obtain the grant in return for your practice and your EMR vendor contributing continuity of care documents (C-CDAs) for at least one year. The state deadline has been extended again to September 2020 or when money runs out, whichever comes first.

Good news: Admission, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) Alerts coming from hospitals and emergency rooms need to meet a standard, but critical minimum data set so physicians and other clinicians can attend to patients in a timely manner. The Monroe County Medical Society's Community Collaborative Committee has fully and unanimously endorsed this effort. My Clinical Advisory Committee is on board as well, which has leadership representation from area hospitals, health systems and independent practices. I will now move forward to get this common standard for Alerts adopted by all involved.

Keep up the good work! Have some fun this summer. Live life the fullest!

Tarun Kothari, MD, FACG, FACP

Rochester RHIO Medical Director

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