![]() ![]() To meet this objective, you only need to test the electronic transfer feature of your EHR. This does not apply if you do not conduct any office visits.Ĭapability of exchanging Key Clinical Information Provide Clinical Summaries for Each Office Visit*įor more than half of your office visits, patients must recieve a clinical summary within 3 days of the visit. ![]() This does not apply if none of your patients request electronic copies. More than half of all patients who request an electronic copy of their records must receive them in a timely fashion. Provide Patients with an Electronic Copy of Their Health Information* This objective requires setting at least one of those alerts that makes sense for your practice. These measures are set by CMS and do not have specific thresholds.ĮHRs have the ability to issue an alert when they encounter patients with certain diagnoses or treatments. ![]() Report Ambulatory Clinical Quality Measures This is not necessary if none of your patients are 2 years or older, or you don’t believe these vital signs are relevant to the scope of your practice.įor more than half of your patients over 13, smoking status is recorded in the EHR. More than half of your patients must have their preferred language, gender, race, ethnicity, and date of birth recorded in your EHR.įor more than half of your patients, you must record the heigh, weight, and blood pressure in your EHR. More than 80% of your patients must have an EHR entry about current medication allergies, or a note indicating they do not have any. More than 80% of your patients must have an EHR entry about current medications, or a note indicating they are not taking any at the time. This is not necessary if you write fewer than 100 prescriptions during the reporting period. More than 40% of the prescriptions you write must be sent electronically through your EHR. More than 80% of patients must have an EHR entry about current diagnoses, or a note that there is no problem at the time. Maintain Up-to-Date Problem List of Diagnoses You must enable the drug-drug and drug-allergy checking feature in your EHR. This is not necessary if you write fewer than 100 prescriptions during the 90 day reporting period. ObjectiveĬomputerized provider order entry (CPOE)*įor at least 30% of your patients with a medication listed in the EHR, you or a licensed staff person must use the EHR’s CPOE module to enter medication orders. Entries with an asterisk (*) have one of these exclusions. ![]() Keep in mind that some objectives are excluded from meaningful use if certain criteria are met. In the following table, we’ve put together a summary of each core objective and how you can meet it. Providers must also report on several Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs), which have no set thresholds. How Do I Achieve Meaningful Use?Īccording to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), there is meaningful use when an eligible provider meets all 15 core objectives of the program and at least 5 out of 10 “menu” objectives. Meaningful use is now required to avoid these negative adjustments. Starting in 2015, however, the incentive payments were replaced with penalties in the form of negative payment adjustments, ranging from 1%–5%, to the providers’ or hospitals’ Medicare or Medicaid reimbursements. The maximum payment was $44,000 over five consecutive years. How the Incentives WorkĮligible providers that started participating in any year between 20 recieved an incentive payment when their use of an EHR met certain standards. To encourage adoption of this new concept, practitioners were initially offered reimbursements when they “meaningfully used” their EHR systems. It also introduced a set of minimum standards for how patient information should be exchanged in the different relationships that exist between healthcare providers, insurers, and patients. The HITECH Act introduced an incentive program to encourage medical professionals to adopt EHR practices that positively affected the care of their patients. When a practitioner meets the requiremenst for meaningful use, they will not be subject to certain penalties. The Health Information Technology for Economic Clinical Health Act (HITECH) introduced the concept of “meaningful use” to promote more useful and patient-centric utilization of electronic health records (EHR). By Andrew Janson | Aug| EMR/EHR | 5 min read ![]()
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