Meaningful Use Stage 3
Returning hospitals must successfully attest to avoid the medicare payment adjustment.
Meaningful use stage 3. The centers for medicare medicaid services and the office of the national coordinator for health it published the final rule on meaningful use stage 3 on october 6 2015 despite the requirements set by stage 3 there are important upcoming changes through a new law called macra or the medicare access. Stage 3 meaningful use timeline. A provider who has technology certified to a combination of the 2015 edition and 2014 edition may potentially attest to the stage 3 requirements if the mix of certified technologies would not prohibit them from meeting the stage 3 measures.
Use our free ehr comparison tool to find. Providing your input in defining meaningful use stage 3 is important and will hopefully result in useful achievable requirements. While stage 1 is underway and stage 2 is currently being adopted stage 3 is yet to come.
A few important notes on the following high level summary and initial impressions. The meaningful use program is entering stage 3 which is focused on promoting interoperability of electronic health record systems. It concentrates on ehr data and sharing.
The reporting period for quality reporting will shift to 365 days. The ehr reporting period regardless of mu status will be a full 365 days. Cms will review public comments on the proposed stage 3 requirements incorporate the feedback and make changes and then issue a final rule later this year probably.
Stage 3 meaningful use in large part aims to facilitate the secure and efficient movement of health information stored in certified ehr technology. Stage 1 of the meaningful use program was announced in 2010. Meaningful use stage 3 is the third phase of the meaningful use ehr incentive program.
Hospitals and eps in their first year of mu will no longer be required to use the 90 day reporting option instead shifting to the 365 day reporting period. Patient generated health data or data from a non clinical setting is incorporated into the certified ehr technology for more than 5 of all unique patients seen by the ep or. Read the full ama letter here and keep an eye out for what s next in meaningful use stage 3.