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Back in July, EQRS ADO reached out to the EDIs about removing individual facility roles from users with a corresponding corporate role
Corporate role has all the same functionality as a facility role, but for every facility in the corporation
EQRS ADO received feedback there was some slowness with the corporate roles
Some enhancements have been made since receiving the feedback
Today, EQRS ADO is following up to see how people are getting along with the corporate roles?
Are there any concerns with EQRS ADO pursuing the removal of facility roles for corporate users?
The main changes made were around Patient Search
Enhancements were made to the patient search to work better for the corporate role
So far, the feedback since the enhancements have been positive and working much better for corporate role users
EQRS ADO would like to send out the list of users that have tons of roles that also have a corporate role and if the old facility roles can be removed
If certain facility roles are still needed, they won't be removed
Ideally want to get as many people using the corporate role as possible
Question (Geraldine)
Will the corporate role include the security official account and the QIP POC account?
Per Dan - not sure about the QIP POC; the security official role you have to switch between security official and your other corporate role to do an approval or rejection
You can have a corporate SO role or facility SO role and a corporate role at the same time but will have to switch between them
Per Dan, they did remove all the thousands of roles from the corporate role's folks from FMC; according to Kathleen is going well. May still need to run a new list for FMC
EQRS ADO will rerun the list for each EDI and will reach out to the individual affected users
EQRS Feature Updates/Discussion
Yvette
Personnel Module
Personnel going into Production
What is your comfort level
The 2728 changes will go to prod on 10/1
Can the Personnel changes go before or after the 2728 changes?
Personnel changes include
updated ICH CAPHS to add the first and last name for on behalf of
updated the facility module so some contacts can be added there
updated the list of positions
made changes to the 2746 - add the first and last name of the person completing the form
There changes would be included in the 2728 changes on 10/1
Question (Nathan)
When it comes to the Personnel Module, what will the user have to do?
EQRS will do a data migration, but only of those current personnel who have good NPIs
Some of the personnel may or may not be there
They will still be available on any previous forms or treatment records that they were included on
They wouldn't be able to find them in the list if you went to search for personnel
The contacts - everyone will have a notice on the dashboard letting them know that they must enter at least their disaster contacts that includes a primary contact, disaster contact and a disaster backup contact; they would also have to add that information to the facility module
Question (Geraldine)
Will the folks that were entered in that module that were inactive won't pullover when you do the update?
Per Yvette that is correct
All the active ones and good NPIs will pullover
What about ones that don't have an NPI number like nurse managers and social workers?
Those will have to be reentered again
For the Personnel Mod, anyone who has an NPI number that was sharing or actually the facility NPI and not their NPI will not come over when Personnel module goes live
Again, they will remain on any treatment record or form they were previously entered on, but you will not be able to find them in the search for personnel
Any of those additional types of people like social works or administrators, they would need to be added to the facility mod
If Personnel module goes live before 2728 (10/1), it will go very close to 10/1 around the last week in September
If Personnel module goes live after 2728 (10/1), it can go 1-2 weeks after 10/1
Question (Geraldine)
Would it affect the entry of the 2728s?
Per Yvette, No
User will be able to use the old Personnel module until the new Personnel module goes live in production
Once the 2728 and 2746 version 2023 changes go live, if you have a current 2746 2018 version in save status, the person completing the form field will update from a drop down to the first name, last name fields.
Per Kathleen (FKC)
Suggest for the Personnel Module to go after the 2728 goes live on 10/1
Would like to wait for the Personnel Module to go live at least more than 2 weeks after the 2728 goes live
This is a lot of new stuff for the clinics at the same time
FKC would like to get a communications campaign out to their clients about the 2728 and 2746
Nathan (DaVita) agrees with Kathleen's suggestion
Requesting for the Personnel Module go live into production around the first week in November
Question (Tricia Phulchand)- Arbor)
Tricia plans to cover the Personnel Module in the October 15th Monthly Stakeholder meeting
Would the EDIs want the Personnel Module training to also be delayed until November when it goes live?
Per Nathan, Kathleen and Geraldine said it would be fine to plan to cover it in the October 15th Stakeholder meeting. Need to mention to the audience it is not available yet.
2746 Form
As part of the Personnel redesign on the form 2746, the person completing the form field was updated from a dropdown to first and last name free form text fields
As part of the go live release on 10/1, that change will go live on the form 2746
That is currently what is in the documentation that EQRS ADO's sent
According to Kathleen, it's already live in production
Question (Revathy)
Does the 2846 have to go live when the 2728 goes live on 10/1?
Revathy would like to request to have 1-2 more weeks before the 2746 goes live
They just received the XSDs at the beginning of September
Their teams need more time for QA and UAT of the work
This request will be taken back to Porsche (Action Item Adrienne)
Question (Leah Skrien)
For the 2746, when the form is in save status does the form change to a new form and the person responsible for submitting the form name is filled in or does it stay with the dropdown and the old version of the form?
Per Anitha, with respect to the person completing the form, regardless of the form version, it's going to be a free form text field, both for the first and last name
After the 2746 changes have been moved to production, there will no longer be a drop down; the previously selected names will not be saved in the new first and last name fields if the form is in saved status. If it's a submitted form, it will stay as a drop down
Regarding versions of the form. If you save a 2018 form, it will stay a 2018 form and not be updated to the new 2023 version of the form
Is there any update on the progress around error 11182 in Production?
11182 - Name of enrolled principal tribe is missing
See this same error in pre prod
Per Anitha, that error should be fixed in both prod preview and prod
Per Sarah Filling, they are still seeing a high volume of this error
Per Anitha, the tribe is required when race is American Indian, Alaskan Native or Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
This was a new validation that was added as part of the race changes in order to support the 2023 form 2728
This was called out in the data dictionary documentation
Question (Kathleen)
When should they expect the list of patients who the races change to one of the codes?
EDIs will need the new race changes or come 10/1 there will be a lot of failures
Follow up is needed with Michael to see where things stand (Action Item Anitha)
Per Dan, Michael's plan was to update the race codes and send out a report
Question (Nathan)
What is the timing of the tribe list update?
Referring to the tribes that are missing from the list to be selected
Per Nathan, help desk tickets have been submitted when the tribe issue was encountered
Need to follow with Michael on the status of this (Action Item Adrienne)
Nathan will send the helpdesk ticket number(s) to Adrienne
Geraldine - she brought this up in the last Program call. Michael was not available on that call. Geraldine thought we were going to add the State recognized tribes along with the federal tribes.
Per Kathleen she last heard from Michael they haven't proposed or received approval from CMS to add the tribes
FMC -
Question (Kathleen)
Do we know when the new flu codes will be available prod preview or documentation? (Action Item Adrienne)
Flu codes will be available in Prod Preview after 9/24 and in Production the first week of October.
DCI
RHA
US Renal
Innovative Renal Care
Administrative
Adrienne
Meeting format update
Program Call extended from 30 minutes to 1-hour effective 10/2
The second 30 minutes of the meeting will be work on documentation
Asking for the EDIs to come prepared to the 10/2 meeting with a sense of priority of documentation that the EDIs would want to be addressed
SMEs from the Program, etc will join to help work through some of the documentation and provide insight that the EDIs have been asking for
Administrative Reminders
Porsche
If any Production issues are encountered, please submit a Helpdesk ticket. This will allow the EQRS team to better track the issue and progress.
CMS will refresh data in the EQRS Prod Preview environment on the first Sunday of every month. The planned schedule is below.
Sun, 03 Dec 2023
Sun, 07 Jan 2024
Sun, 04 Feb 2024
Sun, 03 Mar 2024
Sun, 07 Apr 2024
Sun, 05 May 2024
Sun, 01 Sep 2024
Sun, 06 Oct 2024
Sun, 03 Nov 2024
Sun, 01 Dec 2024
If there are any issues with the scheduled date(s) please notify the team by the Friday before that Sunday when the refresh of data is scheduled to take place
If there are any issues encountered with the refresh on Sunday, it will be moved to Monday (next day)
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