Meaningful Use Certification

Using certified health it improves care coordination through the electronic exchange of clinical care documents.
Meaningful use certification. The office of the national coordinator for health information technology onc health it certification program programis a voluntary certification program established by the office of the national coordinator for health it to provide for the certification of health it. The american recovery and reinvestment act arra also known as the stimulus package was signed into law february 17 2009. Meaningful use and the shift to the merit based incentive payment system with the introduction of the medicare access and chip reauthorization act macra the medicare ehr incentive program commonly referred to as meaningful use was transitioned to become one of the four components of the new merit based incentive payment system mips which itself is part of macra. The presentations describe key aspects of meaningful use.
Cms refers to the minimum set of required certification functionalities that the health it used by eligible clinicians must have in order to qualify for the cms incentive programs as certified ehr technology cehrt. Certified ehr technology beginning in 2019 all eligible professionals eps eligible hospitals dual eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals cahs are required to use 2015 edition certified electronic health record technology cehrt to meet the requirements of the promoting interoperability program. Government standards for using electronic health records ehr and for exchanging patient clinical data between healthcare providers between healthcare providers and insurers and between healthcare providers and patients. Meaningful use certification electronic health records ehr hipaa meaningful use incentives.
Meaningful use defines minimum us. Meaningful use basic training slides this training was provided for public health professionals at amia 2011 spring in orlando. Basic training 1 the hitech act and meaningful use implications for population and public health pdf icon pdf 13 mb.