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Patient Portal Accelerator^TM eNewsletter System

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Demonstrate Meaningful Use With Your Own Practice eNewsletter

Receive up to $44,000 per physician

The Economic Stimulus Package and Your Practice
The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 (ARRA) has allocated billions of dollars to assist health care providers to adopt, implement, and effectively use electronic health records and other information technology to improve health outcomes and streamline practice operations.

Your Incentive Payments and "Meaningful Use"
According to the Act, physicians are eligible to receive up to $44,000 in total incentives, per physician, from Medicare for "Meaningful Use" of information technology in their practice starting in 2011. See Final Meaningful Use Rules released July 2010.

Medicare Bonus Payments
Year of First Filing	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	Total
2011	$18,000	$12,000	$8,000	$4,000	$2,000	$0	$44,000
2012	$0	$18,000	$12,000	$8,000	$4,000	$2,000	$44,000
2013	$0	$0	$15,000	$12,000	$8,000	$4,000	$39,000
2014	$0	$0	$0	$12,000	$8,000	$4,000	$24,000
2015 or later	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0

Stage of Meaningful Use Criteria by Payment Year
First Payment Year	Payment Year
	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015+ **
2011	Stage 1	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 2	Stage 3
2012		Stage 1	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3
2013			Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3
2014				Stage 1	Stage 3
2015+ *					Stage 3

In order to qualify to receive these incentive funds you must demonstrate "Meaningful Use". Meaningful Use means that you can show how your practice is utilizing information technology to improve health outcomes and streamline practice operations as specified by the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines (see Final Meaningful Use Rules released July 2010.)

Your Practice eNewsletter Can Help You Demonstrate Meaningful Use In the Following Ways:

Objective1	Your Practice eNewsletter
Stage 1 Objective Number [11]: Generate lists of patients by specific conditions to use for quality improvement, reduction of disparities, research, and outreach. Measure: Generate at least one report listing patients of the EP with a specific condition. Stage 1 Objective Number [13]: Send reminders to patients per patient preference for preventive/ follow-up care. Measure: Reminder sent to at least 50 percent of all unique patients seen by the EP that are 50 and over.	Your practice e-newsletter is a communication platform where you can include such information as: reminders about flu season / flu shots have arrived cholesterol checks importance of maintaining healthy lifestyles reminders about preventive tests
Provide access to patient-specific education resources in common primary languages	Your practice e-newsletter lets you include health education resources at any time. You may include links to your own website, or links to other educational resources you

Helpful Online Resources Regarding the ARRA, Incentive Payments, and Meaningful Use

• Health IT Adoption Initiative
• Meaningful Use
• Final Meaningful Use Rules released July 2010.

Caring for and Communicating With Patients.

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Time is always a factor at a medical practice. Every medical practice would like to provide the best care and complement that care with the best in patient education and other online services for their patient communities.

Patient care always comes first, but patient education and staying in touch with patients is often secondary – if at all. And in today’s healthcare environment, that challenge is not getting any easier.

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Since 1993 HealthBanks has been helping medical practices in nearly every specialty provide patients with patient education and other online services.

Our innovative technology platform allows all medical practices to provide health information and an electronic newsletter to their patient populations on a large and small-scale, while completely branding all of these services for each individual practice and provider.

We believe healthcare is local to the community and specific to the practices and protocols set by its care providers. Let us help you provide the finest patient education and marketing services completely branded for your facility.