Meaningful Use Stage 1
Beginning in 2015 providers who are eligible for the medicare meaningful use program who don t successfully demonstrate meaningful use will be penalized starting at 1 of medicare part b reimbursements and increasing each year to a maximum of 5.
Meaningful use stage 1. Stage 1 outlined requirements for the electronic data capture. Stage 1 contains 25 objectives measures for eligible providers eps and 24 objectives measures for eligible hospitals. Mu has three stages.
Stage 1 set the foundation by establishing requirements for the electronic capture of clinical data including providing patients with electronic copies of health information. Meaningful use stage 1 incentive payments. The first steps in achieving meaningful use are to have a certified ehr and to be able to demonstrate that it is being used to meet the requirements.
Meaningful use stage 1 core objectives. Healthcare providers were required to to focus on storing health information electronically in a standardized format that makes it easy to access for authorized providers and patients. Stage 1 also focused on tracking clinical conditions using.
30 of all unique patients with a medication in their medication list have at least one order entry using cpoe core objective 2. There will be hardship exceptions for eligible providers. Stage 2 expanded upon the stage 1 criteria with a focus on advancing clinical processes and ensuring that the meaningful use of ehrs supported the aims and priorities of.
Enable drug drug and drug allergy interaction checks for the entire reporting period. Motivate health care professionals and institutions to adopt ehrs and begin to store and share health information electronically. Meaningful use stage 1 was the first phase of implementing these standards.
To qualify for the ehr incentive programs eps has to achieve objectives of meaningful use. Stage 1 meaningful use criteria physicians must meet all 15 core set objectives and measures and five of the 10 menu set objectives and measures. They also must report clinical quality measures see separate document.