"Meaningful Use"
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Attachment4.docxMeaningful Use Defined
Meaningful use is using certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to:
· Improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce health disparities
· Engage patients and family
· Improve care coordination, and population and public health
· Maintain privacy and security of patient health information
Ultimately, it is hoped that the meaningful use compliance will result in:
· Better clinical outcomes
· Improved population health outcomes
· Increased transparency and efficiency
· Empowered individuals
· More robust research data on health systems
Meaningful use is a government program that promotes the use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology by healthcare providers with the goal to improve quality of care, increase electronic health information exchange, and increase coordination of care while maintaining patient health information privacy and security.
EHR Incentive Payment Timeline
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) authorizes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to award incentive payments to eligible professionals who demonstrate Meaningful Use of a certified electronic health record (EHR).
It pays to get started early! Providers must participate early — in 2011 or 2012 — in order to receive the maximum incentive.
These incentive programs will not always be available, and financial penalties are scheduled to take effect in 2015 for Medicare and Medicaid providers who do not transition to EHRs.
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In addition, another future challenge HIT faces is the barriers with Health Information Exchange (HIE). While HIT is of great importance in healthcare industries, it's remain limited in its full potential as a result of challenges from vendors, consumers, and patients. “Reaping the benefits of HIE is dependent upon the collaboration and harmonization of efforts between a network of stakeholders such as physicians, hospitals, patients, government entities, EHR vendors, and policymakers” Cannoy, S. D., & Carter, P. E. (2011).
“One of the many motivations that hospitals may have to silo their patients’ records is to avoid competitors benefiting from the opinions of highly paid clinical or technical staff. Columns (3) and (4) of Table 8 explore this by presenting estimates where we allow the importance of hospital system size to vary by average salary paid to hospital staff. The results suggest that hospitals with highly-paid employees have larger coefficient estimates for the responsiveness of sharing to system size. We repeat this estimation for the decision to share data internally within a system in Table A1 and find no such relationship. This suggests that the decision to create information silos is related to the value of the inputs that a firm is paying for the creation of that data. The more valuable the inputs, the more reluctant firms are to share such data externally”
References 1
https://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/meaningful-use-definition-objectives
Kass, J., Brody, M., Dellinger, R. A., & Sherman, A. (2015). Use of Meaningful Use?. Podiatry Management, 34(2), 16-22.
McCulloch, G., & Tegethoff, G. (2013). Meaningful use and its impact on healthcare technology management. Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, 47(1), 30-34. doi:10.2345/0899-8205-47.1.30
Kass, J., Brody, M., Dellinger, R. A., & Sherman, A. (2015). Use of Meaningful Use?. Podiatry Management, 34(2), 16-22.
References 2
https://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/hie-governance
Cannoy, S. D., & Carter, P. E. (2011). Information Politics in Health Information Exchange Networks. Journal Of Information Privacy & Security, 7(2), 65-90.
Miller, A. R., & Tucker, C. (2014). Health information exchange, system size and information silos. Journal Of Health Economics, 3328-42. doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.10.004
