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| American Recovery & Reinvestment Act |
| The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of February 2009 offered incentives of $44,000 to $63,750 to Eligible Providers (EP) starting 2011; who could demonstrate meaningful use of certified Electronic Health Records (EHR) technology. |
| ARRA Meaningful Use |
Meaningful Use, as defined in Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) required for EP to be eligible for the incentives granted in ARRA act include:
The use of certified EHR technology to submit clinical quality and other such measures and to improve the quality of health care by electronically exchanging health care and in a meaningful manner, such as e-prescribing. |
| HITECH EHR Incentive Programs Timeline |
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FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Last day for EPs to register and attest to receive an Incentive Payment for CY 2011 |
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adjustments begin for EPs and eligible hospitals that are not meaningful users of EHR technology |
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Last year to received MEdical EHR Incentive Payments |
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NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Last Day for eligible hospitals and CAHs To register and attest to receive an incentive Payment for FFY2011 |
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Last Day to initiate participation in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program |
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Last year to receive a Medicare EHR Incentive Payment
Last year to initiate participation in Medicaid EHR Incentive Program |
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| How We Can Help |
Using PowerMD+ software, we can assist EP complete necessary documents & reports as required in ARRA Meaningful use.
Provide technical support
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| Demonstration of Meaningful Use -
(All 15 are required) |
1. Use computerized provider order entry (CPOE) for medication orders
2. Implement drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks.
3. Maintain an up-to-date problem list of current and active diagnoses.
4. Generate and transmit permissible prescriptions electronically (eRx).
5. Maintain active medication list.
6. Maintain active medication allergy list.
7. Record all of the following demographics: preferred language, gender, race, ethnicity, & date of birth.
8. Record and chart changes in the following vital signs: height, weight, blood pressure, calculate & display body mass index, & plot growth charts for children 2 - 20 years.
9. Record smoking status for patients 13 years old or older.
10. Report ambulatory clinical quality measures to CMS.
11. Implement one clinical decision support rules relevant to specialty.
12. Provide patients with an electronic copy of their health information, upon request.
13. Provide clinical summaries for patients for each office visit.
14. Capability to exchange key clinical information among providers of care and patient authorized entities electronically.
15. Protect electronic health information created or maintained by the certified EHR technology. |
| Core Menu Sets -
(5 of 10 are required) |
1. Implement drug-formulary checks.
2. Incorporate clinical lab-test results into EHR as structured data.
3. Specific conditions to use for quality improvement, reduction of disparities, research, or outreach.
4. Send reminders to patients per patient preference for preventive/followup care.
5. Provide patients with timely electronic access to their health information within 4 business days.
6. Use certified EHR technology to identify patient-specific education resources and provide those resources to the patient.
7. The EP who receives a patient from another setting of care should perform medication reconciliation.
8. The EP who transitions their patient to another setting of care should provide summary care record for each referral.
9. Capability to submit electronic data to immunization registries or immunization information systems.
10. Capability to submit electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health agencies. |
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