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. Final Meaningful Use, Standards and Interoperability, and EHR Certification rules were released on July 13th, 2010.
EMR Software Meaningful Use - Highlights of Final Rules Released 7/13/2010
- Stage 1 Meaningful Use Requirement Overview.
ePrescribing, CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry), Clinical Decision Support, Interoperability, Public Health Reporting, and Quality Reporting are the chief core requirements. - 15 "Core" Meaningful Use Requirements. There are 15 core requirements that ambulatory physician must achieve with use of a certified EHR system.
- Choose 5/10 from Additional Menu Set. Providers select 5, and optionally defer up to 5 additional meaningful use criteria.
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 will be able to choose from 5/10 items from a menu set of objectives, in addition to core meaningful use requirements - giving providers some flexibility with the EHR features they use to achieve meaningful use. Proposed Stage 2 and Stage 3 requirements will require increasingly tougher standards.
You can find the entire contents of the HITECH Act on the Committee on Ways and Means website.
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* 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.
