Last week, the Health IT Policy’s Meaningful Use workgroup released seven recommendations for meaningful use stage 3 objectives to emphasize interoperability. The new recommendations were based on the following four key focus areas:
- Clinical Decision Support
- Patient Engagement
- Care Coordination
- Population Health Management
The seven new proposed meaningful use stage 3 objectives are:
- The electronic health record is able to assist with follow up orders; results of specialty consult requests are returned to the ordering provider
- Providers will record Food and Drug Administration unique device identifier when patients have a device implanted
- The EHR has the ability to access medication fill information from pharmacy benefit managers and access prescription drug monitoring program data in a streamlined way
- Providers provide patients with an easy way to request amendments to their records online
- Providers can receive provider requested electronically submitted patient generated information
- Eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals can send electronic notifications to members of a patient’s care team
- The EHR is capable of using external knowledge to prompt an end users when criteria are met for case reporting
For more information, view the workgroup’s presentation here.
