Meaningful Use Matrix
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Assumptions
- This estimated effort is based on 50 physician multi-specialty organization.
- It is intended to give a ballpark of effort involved and the numbers serve as estimates only.
- It does not necessarily scale linearly with number of providers or specialties.
- The effort only addresses four categories of effort – implementation, technical, interface and training.
- Categories of effort not addressed include project management, systems configuration and deployment, networking configuration and deployment, hardware (including desktop) deployment, and helpdesk and on-going support.
Criteria | Threshold | Module | Delivered in AE-EHR Y/N | Typical EHR Phase | Implementation Effort | Interface Effort | Technical Effort | Training | Total | |
1 | Electronically enter all orders for medications, laboratory, imaging and referrals. | 80% of all patients | Order | N | III | 220 | 100 | 80 | 400 | |
2 | Implement drug-drug, drug-allergy, drug- formulary checks. | 100% | Base | Y | I | |||||
3 | Maintain an up-to-date problem list. | 80% of all patients | Base | N | I | 100 | 80 | 40 | 220 | |
4 | ePrescribe | 75% of all permissible prescriptions | RX+ | Y | II | 40 | 40 | 80 | ||
5 | Maintain active medication list. | 80% of all patients | RX+ | N | II | 120 | 20 | 140 | ||
6 | Maintain active medication allergy list. | 80% of all patients | Base | N | I | 80 | 20 | 100 | ||
7 | Record patient demographics (including race/ethnicity/language). | 80% of all patients | Base | Y | I | 50 | 50 | |||
8 | Record vitals signs for those age 2 and older, calculate BMI, and plot growth charts for children 2-20. | 80% of all patients | Base | Y | I | 80 | 20 | 100 | ||
9 | Record smoking status for patients 13 years old and older. | 80% of all patients | Note | N | II | |||||
10 | Incorporate clinical lab-test results into EHR as structured data. | 50% of all lab results | Result | N | II | 100 | 70 | 40 | 210 | |
11 | Generate lists of patients by specific conditions to use for quality improvement, reduction of disparities, research, and outreach. | N/A | Base | N | I | 60 | 40 | 100 | ||
12 | Report ambulatory quality measures to CMS or State | N/A | N | 160 | 200 | 20 | 380 | |||
13 | Send preventive/follow-up care reminders. | 50% of patients over 50 years old | Base | N | I | |||||
14 | Implement five clinical decision support rules relevant to specialty or high clinical priority and track compliance | N/A | Base | N | I | |||||
15 | Check insurance eligibility electronically from public and private payers | 80% of all patients | Base | Y | I | 40 | 20 | 60 | ||
16 | Submit claims electronically to public and private payers. | 80% of all patients | Charge | N | III | 50 | 50 | |||
17 | Provide patients with an electronic copy of their test results, problem list, medications, and allergies | Within 48 hours for 80% of those requesting | Base/Result/Rx+ | N | II | |||||
18 | Provide patients with timely electronic access to their lab results, problem list, medications, and allergies | 10% of patients | Base/Result/Rx+/Patient Portal | N | II | 200 | 40 | 240 | ||
19 | Provide clinical summaries to patients for each office visit. | 80% all office visits | Multiple | N | ||||||
20 | Electronically exchange problem list, medication list, allergies, and diagnostic test results among providers of care and patient authorized entities. | Test and demonstrate | Multiple | N | ||||||
21 | Perform medication reconciliation | 80% of relevant visits or care transitions | Rx+ | N | II | |||||
22 | Provide summary care record for each transition of care and referral. | 80% of care transitions and referrals | Multiple | N | 60 | 40 | 100 | |||
23 | Submit electronic data to immunization registries and actual submission where required and accepted. | Test and demonstrate | Base | N | I | 40 | 120 | 160 | ||
24 | Provide electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health agencies. | Test and demonstrate | N/A | N | 150 | 150 | ||||
25 | Conduct or review a security risk analysis for protecting patient privacy. | 100% | N/A | Y |