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Stage 2 Meaningful Use Core set and Menu set Requirements

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Stage 2 Meaningful Use The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services final requirements for “Stage 2 Meaningful Use” that hospitals and health care providers must meet in order to qualify for Government incentives consist of 20 objectives; there are 17 Core Objectives and 3 of 6 Menu Objectives. Here are links to summary lists of those objectives. Core Set Objectives – Continue reading Stage 2 Meaningful Use Core set and Menu set Requirements→

All EHRs are EMRs but not all EMRs are EHRs

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OK, so what’s the difference? I’m glad you asked. Typically an EMR is a medical record stored in any type of electronic format, PDFs being the most common. But an EHR is an EMR whose information is quantifiable. In other words, you can use pieces of the EHR for calculating percentages of records with a certain diagnosis or the number of patients Continue reading All EHRs are EMRs but not all EMRs are EHRs→

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“MEANINGFUL USE” of an EHR Explained In 60 Seconds

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“The HITECH Act set meaningful use of interoperable EHR adoption in the health care system as a critical national goal and incentivized EHR adoption.” (CDC , Jun 3, 2011. “Introduction”. Meaningful Use. CDC)   Wait a minute, …what? Simply put, “Meaningful Use” is the Federal Government’s benchmark for Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems.  An EHR system is considered ineffective unless the data that Continue reading “MEANINGFUL USE” of an EHR Explained In 60 Seconds→