The one I saw was the follow-up "letter" sent out on the 26th about the "State of the Union address" in which they announced that 12.1 had been pushed to October now. I have included the "letter" below.
August 22,
2014
Dear
Centricity™ Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers:
Since our
most recent State of the Union, we have made important progress related to
Centricity Practice Solution (CPS), Centricity EMR (CEMR), and Clinical Quality
Reporting (CQR). We also have some follow up information from the call
that may be helpful as you plan your upgrade and prepare to attest to
Meaningful Use.
CPS
and CEMR -- Path to Meaningful Use
In response
to customer feedback and to simplify your preparations to attest to Meaningful
Use for 2014, we are updating our upgrade strategy recommendation. All
customers planning to upgrade in 2014 should plan to use either CPS12.0 or CEMR
9.8, each with SP4 or higher. The known stability of SP4 and relative ease of
adding additional service packs will simplify our collective efforts. We
anticipate including key features of the planned CPS 12.1 and CEMR 9.9 releases
in the post SP4 service packs, including CVS Improvements, Problem Search
Improvements and support for additional CQMs. Our services teams are
available to help you with your upgrades or any issue you may encounter in
applying service packs.
Development
on CPS 12.1 and CEMR 9.9 will continue, and these versions will be released
after October 1, 2014 (the start of the last available Meaningful Use reporting
period). We will continue to update you on the plans for these releases, and
they will be certified for Meaningful Use attestation.
Release
details:
Release
|
Contents
|
Planned
Release
Date
|
|
SP4
|
Consolidates
previous service packs and patches into a single install
|
Available
|
|
SP5
|
CVS
enhancements
Stability fixes
|
August 25
|
Additional
service packs, to be released every 4 weeks, will contain fixes for the most
impactful SPRs. You can find the top 10 SPRs on the service portal
under "Access Documentation". Work to finalize which SPRs will be
included in SP6 is underway and will be communicated once finalized.
As a
reminder, in May the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office
of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a
proposed rule to delay when some customers must fully implement 2014 edition
certified technology and/or meet Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures in order to
successfully attest to Meaningful Use in 2014. We expect this proposed rule to
be finalized within a matter of weeks, with at least the specific level of
flexibility proposed, and will communicate further on the implications of the
rule as adopted.
If you
haven't yet upgraded to CPS12 or CEMR 9.8, per my letter of May 27, 2014,
please ensure that before you do so, you have run your Crystal Reports and
identified what steps you can take in the third or fourth quarter of 2014 to
meet the requirements of Stage 1 Meaningful Use as provided for by the proposed
rule. These actions may include documenting the percentage-based measures that
Crystal Reports can track and critically, the non-percentage-based measures that must
be met during a reporting period, such as use of clinical decision support and
the HIPAA security assessment.
Finally, at
our recent state of the union, we committed to provide important follow up
information. As such, please log in to the service portal at http://www.gehealthcare.com/se.....viceportal ,
select Centricity Practice Solution or Centricity EMR, and click on the
"View Past Webinars" link to access the call recordings and the
slides. In addition, click here to access the document entitled "CQR and Upgrade
Readiness FAQ" which contains answers to frequently asked questions from
this series.
Many of the
individually asked questions will be directly replied to via email this week.
Please plan to join us for our next live update on September 11, 2014 at
12:30PM EDT for CPS customers and 2:30PM EDT for CEMR customers. Invitations
will be posted to the service portal next week.
This is a
time of unprecedented industry change, and you have our commitment that we are
responding with unprecedented action to support you as you prepare for
Meaningful Use attestation.
Sincerely,
Peter Kinhan,
Vice President and General Manager,
Ambulatory Practice Solutions
Posted : September 4, 2014 4:30 am
