EHR Preventive Care Initiative

As Oregon's Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO), Acumentra Health has a long history of working with Oregon physicians and professional associations in improving patient care and safety. Since 2005, we have led the Doctor's Office Quality–Information Technology (DOQ–IT) initiative in Oregon, which helped more than 40 primary care practices with adoption and implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems.

In August 2008, Acumentra Health began a new round of QIO work aimed at increasing practice efficiency while improving patient care and health outcomes. The EHR Preventive Care Initiative is assisting 41 Oregon primary care practices in

• using their EHRs to increase the delivery of evidence-based preventive services to all patients
• using data from their EHRs to track improvement and report data to a centralized data warehouse

IPA Collaborative on EHRs

Acumentra Health partners with independent physician associations (IPAs) in Oregon to assist IPA members with EHR implementation and optimization. Working together, we have made Oregon a leader in EHR implementation. Acumentra Health started the IPA Collaborative in 2006 as part of the DOQ–IT Initiative, to provide opportunities for IPA leaders supporting EHR adoption to convene, collaborate, and share information and ideas. The peer-to-peer exchange has strengthened the IPAs' efforts to support EHR adoption among their members.