November 9, 2016

DEBORAH HARRIGAN INAUGURATED AS NEW PRESIDENT OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE MEDICAL SOCIETY

On Saturday, November 5, 2016, Deborah Harrigan, MD, was inaugurated as the 185th president of the New Hampshire Medical Society.  Founded in 1791, NHMS is celebrating its 225th anniversary this year.

Dr. Harrigan is a family medicine physician and is the Medical Director of the ambulatory Physician Practices at Frisbie Memorial Hospital.  She is currently the Physician Champion for the hospital’s MEDITECH implementation.

On October 28, 2016, the NH DHHS issued a health alert regarding a cluster of invasive Group A Streptococcus infections.

Key Points and Recommendations:

• The New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services (NH DPHS) has been notified of four cases of invasive Group A Streptococcal bacteremia, all males, and all active injection heroin users from Southern/Central New Hampshire, who presented to healthcare in the last 10 days.

October 26, 2016

Program Year 2016 is the final year in which Eligible Professionals (EPs) and Eligible Hospitals (EHs) can begin to participate in the Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program.  Providers that may not have met the Medicaid patient volume threshold in the past may, in fact, meet it now as a result of Medicaid expansion.