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Program priorities, care goals and Meaningful Use objectives & measures
Meaningful use is structured around fi ve health outcomes policy priorities as established by CMS: carecoordination; engage patients and families; improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce health disparities; ensure privacy and security protections for personal
health information; and improve population and public health. The diagram below
highlights the five health outcomes policies and some of the functionalities that
certifi ed EHRs, such as Centricity Advance, possess to support Meaningful Use.
| Care Coordinator |
- Send Continuity of Care document to other providers
- Provide patients with clinical summaries for office visits
- Perform medication reconciliation
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| Engage Patients and Families |
- Provide patient portal access
- Communicate results securely
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| Improve Quality and Efficiency |
- Perform ePrescribing with drug interaction checking
- Monitor and report quality measures
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| Protect Privacy |
- Track and monitor access to electronic health records
- Use secure messaging for exchange of patient information
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| Improve Public Health |
- Submit information to immunization registry
- Receive electronic laboratory results
- Provide information to public health agencies
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A full list of Stage 1 Meaningful Use objectives and measures can be viewed at: http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/Downloads/MU_Stage1_ReqSummary.pdf.
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