The purpose of this short video is to explain the encounter notifications required by cms as of may 1st 2024 along with existing alerts that you may already receive from the rhode island quality institute we'll also review why it's important to take some time to update your direct secure address and to share it with others in order to maximize these notifications of your patient encounters the center for medicare and medicaid's final rule on interoperability and patient access requires that facilities send electronic notifications to all identified caregivers when patients have adt encounters riq is partnering with women in infants kent and south county hospital to send these facility identified alerts on their behalf if you already receive care management alerts or current care alerts from riqi and the direct address for your existing alerts matches with the direct address of the new facility identified alerts from these hospitals we will combine them into one alert to avoid duplication and save you some time for any other facility who is not using riqi to push the cms required notifications you could receive an alert from that hospital and your usual care management or current care alert from riqi here is an example of a facility identified alert combined with both a current care hospital alert and a care management alert the header portion of the alert will display why you are receiving the alert in this case there are three reasons current care alert care management alert where you'll also see the panel name and facility identified alert from kent hospital you can also see how the direct email was obtained here from both the facility and npes which is why it's important to keep your direct address updated and share it widely a link to more information...