Texas – EMR Requirements & Incentives | MedicalRecords.com

Program Start Date: January 2011
Website: www.tmhp.com/Pages/HealthIT/HIT_Home.aspx
Contact Email: support@tmhp-mi.co

Program Information:
The Texas Medicaid’s Health Information Technology (HIT) initiative effective in 2011 focuses on electronically capturing health information in a coded format, on using that information to track key clinical conditions, on communicating that information for care coordination purposes, on initiating the reporting of clinical quality measures. Furthermore effective in 2013 HIT will focus also on: disease and medication management, clinical decision support, and interoperability. Eventually effective in 2015 Texas Medicaid HIT will focus on: patient access to self-management tools, access to comprehensive patient data and improving population health outcomes.