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Telligen Releases a Request for Proposal: Data Aggregation Solution Sought for the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative
Telligen is seeking a Data Aggregation solution through the release of an RFP.
Oklahoma Health Care Authority Awards Program to Telligen
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority recently announced the awarding of the SoonerCare Health Management Program to Telligen.
Patient-Centered Medication Safety Event
You are invited to attend the Patient-Centered Medication Safety Event featuring nationally recognized speaker, Dr. Kyle Hultgren.
Telligen Seeking 2014 Grant Applications for Health Programs in Iowa and Illinois
Telligen Community Initiative, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization established by Telligen in 2003, is seeking grant proposals for 2014 programs.
June Security Boot Camp
Register to participate in Security Boot Camp on Monday, June 10 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Prairie Meadows Conference and Event Center.
Telligen to Provide Health Management Services to Chicago Transit Authority
Telligen was awarded a contract to provide utilization management and case management services for Chicago Transit Authority members beginning May 1, 2013.
Telligen Iowa HIT Regional Extension Center Achieves Meaningful Use Milestone
In December 2012, the Telligen Iowa HIT Regional Extension Center successfully achieved 100 percent of their Milestone 2 goal – 1,200 providers live on a certified electronic health record with active...
Communities Reducing Readmissions
When Medicare patients make an unplanned return to the hospital it delays their recovery, exposes them to infection, costs taxpayers money and consumes healthcare resources.
Telligen Awards $150,000 in Grants to Support Health and Wellness
Telligen’s charitable giving organization, Telligen Community Initiative, awarded $150,000 in grants in 2012 to eight non-profit organizations in Iowa and Illinois for innovative health and...
Improving Patient Outcomes Through Clinical Education
Telligen is proud to part of The Evolution of Anticoagulation Management, a strategic multi-faceted educational initiative designed to prevent and reduce the serious complications associated with...
Dr. Ried Boom named Iowa Family Physician of the Year
Telligen’s own Board of Director’s President, Ried Boom, MD, has been named the 2012-13 Iowa Family Physician of the Year by the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians.
Adult Immunizations Important Role in Health and the Cost of Healthcare
Governor Branstad proclaimed November 2012 as Iowa Adult Immunization Awareness Month. As one of the greatest efforts in public health, immunizations have eradicated or reduced cases of small pox,...
CS2day - Cease Smoking Today
November 15 is the 37th Great American Smokeout, marked by the American Cancer Society, to encourage smokers to use the date to make a plan to quit, or to plan in advance and quit smoking that day.
Putting Improvement Into Action
Telligen is hosting a one-day event, Building Strong Communities: Putting improvement into action. Participants will discover innovative ideas, tools and resources to help accelerate quality...
Telligen to Work with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on ACO Initiative
In partnership with Signature Consulting Group, Telligen was awarded a four year contract to build a web-based data collection and quality reporting tool for the Pioneer ACO community, providing...
Telligen to Work with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on ACO Initiative
In partnership with Signature Consulting Group, Telligen was awarded a four year contract to build a web-based data collection and quality reporting tool for the Pioneer ACO community, providing...
Telligen to Continue Work on Measures Authoring Tool Through CMS
Telligen is pleased to announce a recent contract award whereby we will continue our work supporting CMS's Measures Authoring Tool through our 8(a) joint venture Health Care Innovation Services.
Telligen Awarded New Contract by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Telligen is pleased to announce that CMS has awarded them with the Outreach, Education and Communication Support to the Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities and PPS-exempt Cancer Hospitals Quality...
Telligen to Work with Health Resources and Services Administration
Telligen is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration. Specifically, Telligen will be working with the FLEX Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement...
Historic Public-Private Partnership to Strengthen Primary Care
On August 22, 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that 500 primary care practices in seven regions have been selected to participate in a new partnership between payers from...
Cease Smoking Today Program Success
In 2007, the CS2Day Collaborative was formed by nine organizations with a common goal of decreasing the number of smokers through a variety of clinician education efforts.
Collaboration Leads to Improvements in Clinical World
In the fall of 2011, the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professionals created a Supplement issue focused on the Cease Smoking Today (CS2Day) initiative and a new approach to addressing...
Telligen partners with Iowa Department of Public Health on TeamSTEPPS™ Training
Telligen in partnership with the Iowa Department of Public Health, Office of Rural health, FLEX Program is hosting a TeamSTEPPS™ Training today. Several Critical Access Hospitals are taking advantage...
SoonerQuit Prenatal Tobacco Cessation Initiative
The SoonerQuit Prenatal Tobacco Cessation Initiative is a collaboration between The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, The Oklahoma Health Care Authority and Telligen. The goal of this initiative is...
Telligen’s Health Management Program Saves Medicaid Dollars
Telligen announced today the results of an independent evaluation of the SoonerCare Health Management Program it operates for the Oklahoma Health Care Authority. The evaluation was performed by the...
Save the Date - Reducing Avoidable Readmissions Training
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Prairie Meadows Event Center, Altoona, IA
Utilizing Health Information Technology in Iowa’s Critical Access Hospitals
Telligen is pleased to receive award of the Utilizing Health Information Technology in Iowa's Critical Access Hospitals’ contract issued by the Iowa Department of Public Health.
8th Annual Iowa e-Health Summit
Date: Wednesday and Thursday, August 8-9, 2012
Place: The Meadows Events and Conference Center, Altoona, Iowa
Sponsored by: Telligen, Iowa Medicaid Enterprise and Iowa eHealth
Look for more...
IME Medical Director Serves on National Panel
Iowa Medicaid Enterprise Medical Director, Jason Kessler, has been selected to join an expert panel to rate and review quality indicators.
Sharing collaborative designs of tobacco cessation performance improvement CME projects
Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education (PI CME) provides an important opportunity for CME providers to combine educational and quality health care improvement methodologies.
Evaluation of a collaborative program on smoking cessation Translating outcomes framework into practice
Although evaluating at multiple outcome levels has been proposed for continuing education activities and programs, it is a complex undertaking and is not done routinely, especially in collaborative,...
Developing clinical competencies to assess learning needs and outcomes The experience of the CS2day initiative
Continuing medical education’s transition from an emphasis on dissemination to changing clinical practice has made it increasingly necessary for CME providers to develop effective interorganizational...
Wednesday, February 15 - Million Hearts Campaign - Hosted by the Telligen QIO
Hear from the Telligen QIO as they provide an overview of the national Million Hearts Campaign, an introduction of the Guideline Advantage, and the cardiovascular initiatives underway in Iowa.
Telligen Announces New Hospital Engagement Contract in Illinois
Telligen and one of its quality segments, IFMC, is pleased to announce their participation and collaboration on the Hospital Engagement Contract (HEC) with UHC, formerly known as University...
Telligen Announces New Hospital Engagement Contract in Iowa
The US Department of Health and Human Services recently announced a new program in which hospitals across the country will have new resources and support to make healthcare safer and less costly by...
Webinar - Tips for Overcoming the Gray Areas of Meaningful Use Stage 1 for Safety Net Providers
This webinar provides tips and guidance of how safety net providers, such as health centers, critical access hospitals and rural health clinics can overcome common gray areas of meeting Meaningful Use...
Telligen is collaborating with Mathematica
Telligen is collaborating with Mathematica to help develop new quality benchmarks in ehealth technology.
Telligen’s Health Management Program Saves Medicaid Dollars
Telligen announced today the results of an independent evaluation of the SoonerCare Health Management Program it operates for the Oklahoma Health Care Authority. The evaluation was performed by the...
Direct Messaging
This presentation will focus on how electronic health records can utilize direct messaging technology to exchange critical data between different systems. John Orosco, HIT solutions architect at...
IFMC-IL Announces Major Triumph for Illinois Hospitals and Medicare Patients
Oak Brook, Ill. – October 6, 2011 – IFMC–IL, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for the state of Illinois, has announced that effective October 1, 2011, all Illinois hospitals have met the...
2012 Grant Applications Sought for Health Programs in IA and IL
Telligen Community Initiative, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization established by Telligen (formerly IFMC) in 2003, is seeking grant proposals for 2012 programs that help organizations and citizens in...
IFMC is now known as Telligen
From its beginnings nearly 40 years ago as a Medicare quality improvement organization in Iowa, our company has evolved into a well?diversified organization that helps improve the quality and...
7th Annual e-Health Summit
Mark your calendars! The 7th Annual Iowa e-Health Summit will be held August 11-12, 2011 at The Meadows Events and Conference Center in Altoona, Iowa.
2011 National QIES Technical Conference
The 2011 National QIES Technical Conference was held June 21st – 23rd at the Holiday Inn, Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD.
Chungath, Mason Complete Executive Health Challenge
Jeff Chungath, CEO, and Peg Mason, Vice President, Health Management, recently completed the Des Moines Business Record’s Executive Health Challenge. The goal of the program was to make individuals...
IFMC Sponsors Wound Assessment Seminar
IFMC is sponsoring free Wound Assessment seminars for hospital and nursing home staff and other clinicians at multiple locations across Iowa from June 14-June 16. Nancy Morgan RN, BSN, MBA, WOCN, WCC,...
IFMC Chief Medical Officer to Present on Patient Safety
Dr. Tim Gutshall, Chief Medical Officer at IFMC, will be a featured speaker for the program, Preventing Unintended Consequences with Electronic Health Records, which is being offered to Iowa hospitals...
IFMC to Manage Minnesota’s Medicaid Utilization Management Program
The Minnesota Department of Human Services has selected IFMC to operate the Medicaid Utilization Management Program for the State of Minnesota. The contract with IFMC, which begins July 1, 2011, is a...
IFMC Announces Medicare Meaningful Use Attestation for an Iowa Critical Access Hospital
Monday, April 18 was the first day that health care providers could attest to meaningful use of electronic health records to earn Medicare EHR incentive payments.
IFMC is pleased to announce that one...
IFMC Employee Shares Patient Safety Experience
Kelli Vellinga, RN, BSN and collaboration specialist with IFMC was featured in an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality case study for her work as a TeamSTEPPS® master trainer. She uses her...
IFMC Community Initiative Surpasses One Million Dollars!
What do a 35 year old homeless male with HIV, and a single mom who has been a victim of domestic violence and substance abuse have in common? Both have been helped through IFMC’s Community Initiatives...
IFMC Employees Provided Training on eMeasures with NQF
IFMC employees Julie Bennett, Stan Rankins, Andrew Schmidt and Chad Bennett presented two eMeasures training webinars along with National Quality Forum leadership, targeting the Measure Steward...
IFMC Presents at Pay for Performance Summit
Dr. Jason Kessler, IFMC and Iowa Medicaid Enterprise Medical Director, Dane Pelfrey, IFMC and IME Health Information Technology Coordinator and Marni Bussell, IFMC and IME Clinical Project Manager...
IFMC employees provide training on eMeasures with NQF
The National Quality Forum is conducting two eMeasures Training Webinar's on Thursday February 10. IFMC employees, Julie Bennett, Stan Rankins, Andrew Schmidt and Chad Bennett will be jointly...