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Customer State of the Union Address

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Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Cusomters: Jon Zimmerman, Vice President and General Manager, Value-Based Care Solutions, and Chad Dodd, General Manager, Ambulatory Practice Solutions, would like to invite you to attend…
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By FRIDAY JUNE, 23RD Responses needed for KLAS!

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Responses are needed for KLAS Interoperability Questionnaire by Friday, June 23rd Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: Meaningful interoperability continues to be a pursuit of providers, vendors, and industry oversight…
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REMINDER: EMPA Webinar on Thursday March 9th

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Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR customers: GE Healthcare would like to remind you of our invitation to attend a webinar about our new solution, Electronic Medication Prior Authorization (EMPA), on Thursday March 9th.…
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Customer State of the Union Address March 7th

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Dear Centricity™ Practice Solution and Centricity EMR customers: Jon Zimmerman, Vice President and General Manager, Value-Based Care Solutions, and Chad Dodd, General Manager, Ambulatory Practice Solutions, would like to invite you to attend…
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EMPA IS HERE! New time-saving solution for CPS/CEMR Customers

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February 15, 2017 Dear Centricity™ Practice Solution and Centricity EMR customers: GE Healthcare is excited to announce the general availability of our solution for Electronic Medication Prior Authorization (EMPA). Manual medication…
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IMPORTANT JULY KB NOTICE!

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Dear Centricity customer, This morning Centricity Support found an issue with interaction checking that arose after applying the July 2016 Incremental Knowledgebase This issue was found to affect both EMR and CPS products. We are asking…

Product Information Notice: SP 11 MU Patch

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: We would like to direct your attention to the Service Pack 11 Meaningful Use patch, which was released early this week along with the SP 11 DI patch. Please…

Product Info Notice: Service Pack 11, Drug Interaction Overrides

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Message from GE Healthcare: December 4, 2015 Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: We would like to direct your attention to a scenario which may increase or change drug interaction override popup frequency…

Identical ICD9 & ICD10 codes and Resolution for MIK

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Message from GE Healthcare: On July 15th we informed you about a list of duplicate diagnosis codes that has been posted to the CMS website. This small number of diagnosis codes within the ICD-10 code set have the same letter and number combination…

REMINDER: Customer State of the Union Address Sept 16th

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers, Jon Zimmerman, VP & GM of Clinical Business Solutions and I would like to invite you to attend our next Customer State of the Union webinar on WEDNESDAY,…

PQRS & Meaningful Use – Take Action by End of Month

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: We have three important message to communicate regarding PQRS and Meaningful Use (MU): 1. PQRS and GPRO - Action due June 30th 2. MU…

CHUG Users your input is needed! – TIME EXTENDED

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Users, Beginning in 2015, each quarter the GE Ambulatory Practice Solutions Engineering Team reserves two days to work on a selected set of small enhancements that will delight customers and improve…

New ICD-10 Webinar Topics and Dates

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: This week, we are pleased to announce new webinars to help you make a smooth transition to ICD-10. We have scheduled three new interface webinars…

ICD-10 Interfaces Webinar

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: We just have three announcements this week regarding new links, the interfaces webinar, and tools to assist your transition. Read this communication…

NEW ICD-10 Webinar Topics – Your input is needed!

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: This week, we have two important announcements regarding upcoming webinars: Interface webinar: We have received requests for a session on interfaces.…

New ICD-10 Resources & Webinar Links

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Message from GE Healthcare: Our teams have designed a thorough program to help you make a smooth transition to ICD-10, and thousands of you have already begun to take advantage of these resources. This communication brings a few of these…

ICD-10 Webinars – Recent & Upcoming

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Message from GE Healthcare: Last week, we kicked off our new ICD-10 webinar series. Due to overwhelming demand for these webinars, we scheduled yesterdays and all future sessions for this series in a higher-capacity platform. We apoligize…

Visit New ICD-10 Community & Register for New ICD-10 Webinars

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Message from GE Healthcare: As we mentioned in our prior communication, GE Healthcare expects the ICD-10 transition deadline to remain October 1, 2015, and there is much that practices need to do to prepare. Our teams have designed a thorough…

Message from the CHUG Board

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CHUG UPDATE Good Day CHUG Community, The CHUG Board hopes all of you enjoyed CHUG at Centricity Live. If you missed it, we encourage you to join us for our next conference this October in New York City. As I start to settle back into…

ICD-10 WEBINAR SERIES: Prepare Now for a Smooth Transition

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Notice from GE Healthcare: We are pleased to announce a new complimentary webinar series desgined to help you prepare for ICD-10. GE Healthcare expects the ICD-10 transition deadline to remain October 1, 2015, and there is much that practices…

Upgrade Now for ICD-10 Readiness

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Notice From GE Healthcare: GE Healthcare expects the ICD-10 transition deadline to remain October 1, 2015, and there is much that practices need to do to prepare for this change. You should begin coding in ICD-10 at least two to three…

GE State of the Union Address

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR customers: Peter Kinhan, VP & GM of Ambulatory Practice Solutions, invites you to attend our next Customer State of the Union webinar on Monday, March 30,…

Product Issue affecting PQRS & MU: CQMs CMS 68 & CMS 147

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: We are writing to advise you of an important issue pertaining to PQRS and Meaningful Use reporting with Clinical Quality Reporting (CQR). We have…

Message from CHUG Board

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February 11, 2015 Mr. Jan De Witte President and CEO Healthcare IT and Performance Solution GE Healthcare 540 W Northwest Highway Barrington, IL 60010-3076 Dear Mr. De Witte, This coming April the CHUG Board will be traveling to…

Message from the CHUG Board

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Good Day CHUG Community, This past weekend the CHUG Board of Directors met with members of the GE Healthcare IT Senior Leadership team at our quarterly board meeting. We worked collectively and collaboratively with the GE team to advocate…

Change to PQRS Insurance Filter

Notice from GE Healthcare: Dear Quality Submission Service Participant: We would like to make you aware of an issue that some customers have experienced with the filters for PQRS measure selection. We have defined the root cause and deployed…

Upcoming Change to PQRS Insurance Filter

Notice from GE Healthcare: Dear Quality Submission Service Participant: We want to share important information about the PQRS program. Within the last few days, GE Healthcare learned that some customers experienced issues with the insurance…

PQRS UPDATE: Simplified workflow for 2014

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Notice from GE Healthcare: Customers who have not yet finished applying SOP codes may now use the following workflow. Part 1: Please review the following required and optional steps (a) Assign initial SOP codes: 1. Required:  Apply…

BREAKING NEWS: CMS relaxes PQRS 2014 requirement to apply all SOP codes

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Notice from GE Healthcare: Dear Quality Submission Service Participant: We have some important news about the PQRS 2014 SOP code program requirements that we believe will provide significant relief for customers who are still in the process…

PQRS Webinar – Reschedule Date

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Notice from GE Healthcare: Dear Valued Quality Submission Services Customer, We are writing to apologize for the issues with yesterdays PQRS Insurance Webinar. We know your time is valuable and are committed to equipping you with the information…

PQRS WEBINAR: Updating Insurance & Transmitting to CQR

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Notice from GE Healthcare: January 29, 2015 QSS Webinar for PQRS on January 30: Updating and Transmitting to CQR Dear Quality Submission Service Participant: We have received a number of questions about the process to update insurance.…

QSS Deadline for PQRS: Step 6 Due February 7th

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Notice from GE Healthcare: January 27, 2015 Dear Quality Submission Service Participant: We appreciate your continued attention to necessary preparations for GE Healthcare's Quality Submission Service (QSS) program for PQRS 2014. Please…

Patient Education Transition of Service

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Notice from GE Healthcare: We want to ensure you saw the following notice that was communicated via email and posted to the Service Portal on November 21, 2014. Slides and the recording from the referenced webinar are available in the "View…

CQR Notice: DOWNTIME & New Instructional Resource

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Notice from GE Healthcare: Dear Clinical Quality Reporting Customer, We want to share with you an important downtime notice for Clinical Quality Reporting (CQR) and introduce a new instructional resource, Monitoring Meaningful Use Data…

CQR Notice: Tues January 20th – EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE PARTIAL DOWNTIME

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Notice from GE Healthcare: Dear Clinical Quality Reporting Customer, We want to share with you an important emergency partial downtime notice for Clinical Quality Reporting (CQR) beginning on Tuesday January 20th, 9:00PM PST. The downtime…
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Join us CHUG at Centricity LIVE

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More reasons than ever to attend CHUG at Centricity LIVE With over 40 education sessions, product roadmap presentations, panel discussions and hands-on training, CHUG at Centricity LIVE is a premier learning conference to help YOU optimize…

CQR Notice: DOWNTIME January 10-11

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January 7, 2015 Dear Clinical Quality Reporting Customer, We want to share with you an important downtime notice for Clinical Quality Reporting (CQR). This downtime is designed to accelerate turnaround times following some calculation…

MU Crystal Reports v1.10.4 now available

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Message from GE Healthcare: December 22, 2014 Dear Centricity Customers: The Meaningful Use Crystal Reports that support Meaningful Use 2013 criteria have been updated to support Patient Level Detail. The package includes all changes…

Additional Meaningful Use Resources

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Message from GE Healthcare: December 22, 2014 Dear Centricity Customers: We have recently released additional resources to help you make your final preparations to attest to Meaningful Use. Service Pack 7 is now generally available.…

CLINICAL VISIT SUMMARY – Product Information Notice

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Message from GE Healthcare: December 19, 2014 Dear Centricity Customer, We would like to make you aware of potentially unexpected behavior when attaching a clinical visit summary to a patient's chart that, if not immediately addressed…

Is there Light at the end of this Healthcare Tunnel?

"Stress is not what happens to us. It's our response to what happens.  An response is something we can choose at any moment." www.livelifehappy.com Does anyone else feel like healthcare is consuming most of your life these days? I am reading…

Join us for CHUG at Centricity LIVE! – Call for Presentations

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CHUG at Centricity LIVE April 29 - May 2, 2015 Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida Your Expertise is NEEDED for CHUG at Centricity LIVE - Lead a Breakout Session...CHUG needs users like you to lead discussions or present on…

QSS Reminder for PQRS: Step 4 due December 5th

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December 5, 2014 Dear Quality Submission Service Participant: We appreciate your interest in GE Healthcare's Quality Submission Service (QSS) program for PQRS. Please take a moment to review the details about important next steps in the…

CQR Notice: DOWNTIME December 5th-8th

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December 3, 2014 Dear Clinical Quality Reporting Customer, We want to share with you an important downtime notice for Clinical Quality Reporting (CQR). This downtime is necessary to support the continually growing volumes of data and calculation…

Optimizing Your Centricity Webinar Series from GE Healthcare

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Optimizing Your Centricity Solution webinar series is to begin the week of December 1st. "Your Centricity Education team is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of a new educational series, Optimizing Your Centricity Solution, geared…

GE Healthcare Customer State of the Union Address

A message from GE Healthcare: Customer State of the Union Address Dear Centricity™ Practice Solution and Centricity EMR customers: Jon Zimmerman, VP & GM of Clinical Business Solutions, and Peter Kinhan, VP & GM of Ambulatory…

African Travel Screening Protocol Kit for CPS & CEMR

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GE Healthcare, in response to urgent Ebola-related recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), has published a clinical kit containing editable notifications, alerts, and clinical guidance for use with Centricity Practice Solutions…

CHUG at Centricity Live

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October 14, 2014 Dear CHUG Members: Based on your feedback and working diligently with GE staff….the CHUG Board and Jon Zimmerman, VP & GM of Clinical Business Solutions are pleased to announce that CHUG will be joining GE’s Centricity…

Enhancement Requests: Let Your Voice Be Heard

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Oh the day when the spell check from the preview screen works, or how about hosted claims checking on the EMR side to help with correct coding?. We all have enhancement requests to the products we use. Our forums page has a section to…

Meaningful Use Admin Set up for Dummies

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If you are on the systems administration side of things, you have been given the daunting task to set up the administration side of CPS12 to get ready for Meaningful Use 2. Unfortunately, the easy button to do this requires many steps. Here…