Health IT, Hospitals, Startups

“TurboTax” of meaningful use reaches 7,000 providers, including Intermountain

In another life I used to write about the furniture industry. SA Ignite’s booth at […]

In another life I used to write about the furniture industry. SA Ignite’s booth at HIMSS14 caught my eye because of the two chairs in it. One is a modern Eames-style lounge chair, the other is a chair of spikes. This clever display is a great illustration of an IT subject like Meaningful Use that doesn’t lend itself to visualizations.

Two years after it signed up its first provider, SA Ignite has found a steady market for a tool that helps providers determine whether their EHR systems comply with CMS criteria for the three stages of meaningful use and transmit that information to CMS automatically. The company is raising new funds to expand its businesses, but would not say how much it is intending to raise.

At HIMSS14, Beth Houck, vice president for client services, said it has worked with 7,000 provider customers including Mount Sinai Health System, Intermountain Healthcare and Wellspan Health. It captures and archives the source EHR reports and screenshots. It also has a compliance scorecard so providers can see areas where they need to improve.

The Chicago-based healthcare startup founded by Tom Lee, focuses on the ambulatory EMR market. The majority of its funding comes from angel investors, but it also has venture capital backing from Aligned Partners.

One downside of focusing on meaningful use is that once the funding program has ended, so has the reason for using its service. Still, the final rule spelling out Stage 3 requirements is not expected to come out until the first half of 2015. For the Medicaid  EHR meaningful use program, some states have not even gotten started yet.

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