In pursuing its Level 3 designation as a Patient-Centered Medical Home last fall, BCA Medical Associates looked to clinical and financial reports in PCC's Practice Vitals Dashboard as an indispensable part of the process, says Roe Vandenbout, administrator at the practice in Roswell, NM.

“Without it, we wouldn't have qualified for certification in some areas,” says Vandenbout. BCA, he says, helped document meaningful use using a number of Dashboard reports, including Recaller, which summarizes how well your practice is doing in keeping patients up-to-date on well visits.

And now, PCC's Dashboard is even more powerful, not to mention easier to navigate. The web-based  menu of reports on pediatric benchmarks now includes data on accepted and rejected claims and a new measurement indicating the percentage of A/R that is older than 60 days.

Eighteen PCC practices, so far, have agreed to lend patient data in the development of new growth charts for children with Down Syndrome. The growth parameters and diagnostic data of 106 patients are included in the Vanderbilt University project aimed at creating charts that more accurately represent the growth of Down Syndrome patients today and can be easily integrated into EHR systems.