EHR/EMR Software Meaningful Use
What "Meaningful Use" Means to Your Practice
Demonstrating meaningful use of a Certified EMR is the requirement for eligible providers to meet in order to receive incentive payments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Currently, the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT®) is the only EHR certification body in existence. Using a CCHIT Certified EMR is the best route to ensuring that your practice meets the first key area (use of a certified EHR) of the EMR stimulus requirements.
First, what is a Certified EHR?
Patient Demographic and Clinical Information.
To meet Certified EMR qualifications, the software must include patient demographic and clinical health information, such as medical history and problem lists.
Clinical Decision Support and Order Entry.
Qualified EHR technology must have the capacity to provide clinical decision support to support physician order entry, to capture and query information relevant to healthcare quality
Exchange Information (Interoperable).
The EHR must be able to exchange electronic health information with, and integrate such information from other sources.Key EHR Stimulus Fact:
- The minimum standards to demonstrate 'meaningful use' of an EHR will get increasingly tighter, and eligible professionals will be tied to the meaningful use requirements for the year that they file. For example, in 2011 - Providers must be able to provide patients with electronic copies of patient records; in 2015 providers must be able to provide real time patient health record (PHR) access.
You can find the entire contents of the HITECH Act on the Committee on Ways and Means website.
Earn your financial EHR incentive with a CCHIT Certified product - Greenway PrimeSuite. MDS offers weekly 1 hour EMR software demonstration webinars on the billing, scheduling, and charting functionality of PrimeSuite in ambulatory physician practices.
Visit our EMR events calendar to register for an upcoming free webinar on Greenway PrimeSuite - the award winning EMR and practice management system .
* This is MDS Medical's interpretation of the stimulus act as described in Title XIII Health Information Technology portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Please consult the United States government websites for additional information or specific details. MDS relies on information from third parties and accepts no responsibility or liability for the content provided herein.
