Meaningful Use Criteria Reference Grid Available

The Office of the National Coordinator for HIT has released new meaningful use quick reference grid layouts to ease the understanding of how Stage 1 and Stage 2 meaningful use objectives and measures correlate with the 2014 Edition electronic health records certification criteria.

More information and links to the grids are available here on ONC’s blog site. The blog starts with a reference to grids released two years ago--don’t click on that link, but on the 2014 grid links below it.  More

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Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
  • patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
  • transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
  • institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
  • vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.

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