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Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records A Summary of CMS’ Proposed 25 Criteria As you begin down the path of adopting EMR there are many things you and your practice need to consider. One is meaningful use of certified EMR technology. To participate in the HITECH incentive program, part of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, eligible professionals (EPs) must be meaningful users of certified EMR technology beginning as early as 2011. This summary of Stage 1 rules will help you gain a better understanding of the responsibilities you and your practice must take to meet the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed definition of meaningful use of certified EMR technology. ALN Medical Management understands the complexity of adopting EMR and will help you navigate this new path to technology. With leading EMR systems and hosted technology, implementation and training, and report and interface customization, ALN provides you tools that help you achieve meaningful use requirements with confidence. Health Outcomes Policy Priority Improving quality, safety, efficiency, and reducing health disparities Care Goals • Provide access to comprehensive patient health data for patient's health care team Eligible Professionals – Stage 1 1. Objective: Use CPOE 2. Objective: Implement drug-drug, drug-allergy, drug-formulary checks 3. Objective: Maintain an up-to-date problem list of current and active diagnoses based on ICD-9-CM or SNOMED CT® 4. Objective: Generate and transmit permissible prescriptions electronically (eRx) 5. Objective: Maintain active medication list 6. Objective: Maintain active medication allergy list 7. Objective: Record demographics: preferred language, gender, ethnicity, insurance type, race, date of birth 8. Objective: Record and chart changes in vital signs: height, weight, blood pressure, calculate and display BMI, plot and display growth charts for children 2-20 yrs, including BMI 9. Objective: Record smoking status for patients 13 years old or older 10. Objective: Incorporate clinical lab-test results into EMR as structured data 11. Objective: Generate lists of patients by specific conditions to use for quality improvement, reduction of disparities, and outreach 12. Objective: Report ambulatory quality measures to CMS or the States 13. Objective: Send reminders to patients per patient preference for preventive follow up care 14. Objective: Implement 5 clinical decision support rules relevant to specialty or high clinical priority, including diagnostic test ordering, along with the ability to track compliance with those rules 15. Objective: Check insurance eligibility electronically from public and private payers 16. Objective: Submit claims electronically to public and private payers Health Outcomes Policy Priority Engage patients and families in their health care Care Goals Provide patients and families with timely access to data, knowledge, and tools to make informed decisions and to manage their health 17. Objective: Provide patients with and electronic copy of their health information (including diagnostic test results, problem list, medication lists, allergies), upon request 18. Objective: Provide patients with timely electronic access to their health information (including lab results, problem list, medication lists, allergies) within 96 hours of the information being available to the EP 19. Objective: Provide clinical summaries for patients for each office visit Health Outcomes Policy Priority Care Goals
24. Objective: Capability to provide electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health agencies and actual transmission according to applicable law and practice Health Outcomes Policy Priority 25. Objective: Protect electronic health information created or maintained by the certified EMR technology through the implementation of appropriate technical capabilities * Reporting requirements. |