This article supports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) encourage public comment on two regulations that lay a foundation for improving excellence, competence and wellbeing through consequential use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology. The regulation is important since it will help in the implementation of the EHR incentive programs enacted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
In a projected rule issued by CMS outlines proposed provisions governing the EHR incentive programs, including defining the innermost perception of "meaningful use" of EHR technology. National Coordinator for Health Information Technology David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. stated that "Widespread adoption of electronic health records holds great guarantee for improving health care quality, efficiency, and patient safety. The Recovery Act is reported in this article to have put in place reputable programs to make available incentive payments to qualified professionals and appropriate hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid that assume and make "meaningful use" of certified EHR technology.
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In the proposed rule as articulated would define the term "meaningful EHR user" as a qualified professional or entitled hospital that, during the specified reporting period, demonstrates meaningful use of certified EHR technology in a form and manner consistent with certain objectives and measures obtainable in the directive. These objectives and measures would include use of certified EHR technology in a manner that recovers quality, wellbeing, and effectiveness that reduces health care disparities, engages patients' health care delivery, and families, improves care coordination, improves population and public health, and ensures adequate privacy and security protections for personal health information.
The article proposes a rule that provides the def ignition of meaningful use f or the Medicare HER incentive programs. The proposed rule would define meaningful use for the Medicare EHR incentive programs.Such definitions also would serve as the minimum measures for qualified professionals and eligible hospitals participating in the Medicaid EHR incentive program. The rule proposes that states stand a chance of requesting CMS endorsement to execute additional meaningful use measures, as appropriate, but could not request approval of fewer or less rigorous meaningful use measures than requisite by the rule. The article thus states that this rule therefore proposes a phased approach to implement the proposed requirements and approach that would originally institute practical criteria for meaningful use based on currently available technological capabilities and providers' practice experience.