Link: Officials outline criteria for meaningful use | Healthcare IT News
ONC Co-chairs Paul Tang, MD, Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Farzad Mostashari, New York City Health Department outlined the criteria for 2011 objectives and measures including:
- Capturing data in coded format;
- Documenting progress note for each encounter (outpatient only);
- Using CPOE for all order types (using e-prescribing and drug and allergy checks;
- Managing populations (generating list of patients by specific conditions and sending patient reminders);
- Engaging patients and their families in their health (providing access to personal health information, educational resources and encounters of clinical summaries);
- Improving care coordination (exchanging clinical info among providers and performing medication reconciliation);
- Improving Population and Public Health (submitting electronic data to immunization registries, electronic labs to public health agencies, and electronic syndrome surveillance data to public health agencies); and
- Complying with HIPAA Rules and state laws, and with fair data sharing practices set forth in the National Privacy and Security Framework.
If you are looking for more information about the HITECH Act and HIPAA go to http://hipaasurvivalguide.com/hitech-act.html and download The HITECH Act: HIPAA Survival Guide, a freely accessible document that I co-authored with my husband who is a Privacy Attorney.
In addition, the HIT Policy Committee will accept public"open comments" on their draft of "meaningful use" criteria until June 26th. Click here to provide your comments and feedback.
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