Meaningful Use Stage 2 Begin In The Year
Of particular note were new requirements centered around engaging patients through online portals.
Meaningful use stage 2 begin in the year. For hospitals this means the start of the 2014 federal fiscal year ffy which is october 1 2013. The timeline reflects the 1 year extension of stage 2 included in the september 4 2014 cms final rule 79 fr 52909. Stage 2 has pushed out a year to 2014.
With the change to a 90 day reporting period for stage 2 this means the last day hospitals can start their reporting period to attest in 2014 is july 1 2014. Providers who began the meaningful use attestation process in 2011 began to attest for stage 2 of the program in 2014. Meaningful use stage 2 requirements.
Stage 2 timeline in the stage 1 meaningful use regulations cms had established a timeline that required providers to progress to stage 2 criteria after two program years under the stage 1 criteria. This original timeline would have required medicare providers who first demonstrated meaningful use in 2011 to meet the stage 2 criteria in 2013. The meaningful use stage 2 requirements differ slightly from those in stage 1.
Some core objectives have been combined and others eliminated although most continue in stage 2. Meaningful use stage 2 is the second phase of the meaningful use incentive program that details the second phase of requirements for the use of electronic health record ehr systems by hospitals and eligible health care providers. Whereas the focus of stage 1 was adoption stage 2 focused on interoperability and health information exchange.