Meaningful use is the wave of health
care records in the next decades. You
should become part of it.
We create multitude of design documents to detail your product. We create an application and follow it to completion. Compliance Consultants applies for Certification with HHS. We test the results with an Registered Authority. You pay the Filing fee with Health & Human Services.
We create multitude of design documents to detail your product. We create an application and follow it to completion. Compliance Consultants applies for Certification with HHS. We test the results with an Registered Authority. You pay the Filing fee with Health & Human Services.
Electronic Health Records are a new area of medical health care records
that are destined to grow into a national exchange process. Most
standards are still evolving. The new health care initiatives' started the
Federal Government offer each "physician" a $44,000 "once payment"
for converting their patients records to Electronic Health Records. This
is a generalization and can be argued. There are exception-of course.
But it is the wave of the future where all patient records are digitized
and stored where qualified health care practitioners can review these
records.
Meaningful Use is associated Electronic Health Records and focuses on quality and efficiency. It applies to electronic exchange of quality measures including process and outcome metrics. This requires coordination of care through the transmission of clinical summaries. It will require decision support driven medication management with comprehensive "eRx implementation" (eligibility, formulary, history, drug/drug interaction, routing, refills). According to HIMSS officials, EHR technology is "meaningful" when it has capabilities including "e- prescribing", exchanging electronic health information to improve the quality of care, having the capacity to provide clinical decision support to support practitioner order entry and submitting clinical quality measures - and other measures - as selected by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. http://www.himss.org/ASP/topics_meaningfuluse.asp
Certification of EHR Products. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has issued specific standards and certification criteria for EHRs. These standards require that all certified EHR products maintain
.
The National Institute of Standards for Technology NIST has published the Approved Test Procedure for ONC Temporary Certification Program to be tested to meet Electronic Health Records. http://healthcare.nist.gov/use_testing/. Criteria # Certification Criteria Test Method Date Published §170.302 (a) to §170.306 (z)
Meaningful Use is associated Electronic Health Records and focuses on quality and efficiency. It applies to electronic exchange of quality measures including process and outcome metrics. This requires coordination of care through the transmission of clinical summaries. It will require decision support driven medication management with comprehensive "eRx implementation" (eligibility, formulary, history, drug/drug interaction, routing, refills). According to HIMSS officials, EHR technology is "meaningful" when it has capabilities including "e- prescribing", exchanging electronic health information to improve the quality of care, having the capacity to provide clinical decision support to support practitioner order entry and submitting clinical quality measures - and other measures - as selected by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. http://www.himss.org/ASP/topics_meaningfuluse.asp
Certification of EHR Products. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has issued specific standards and certification criteria for EHRs. These standards require that all certified EHR products maintain
- Data confidentiality
- Ensure interoperability to share information
- Can execute a series of well-defined functions
.
The National Institute of Standards for Technology NIST has published the Approved Test Procedure for ONC Temporary Certification Program to be tested to meet Electronic Health Records. http://healthcare.nist.gov/use_testing/. Criteria # Certification Criteria Test Method Date Published §170.302 (a) to §170.306 (z)
