Health care information related regulations, laws, and standards
There are a variety of health care information related regulations, laws, and standards. These together through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act aim to produce better health care. These regulations, laws, and standards, cover items from the transfer of information between involved parties through what constitutes acceptable electronic health records (EHR) as defined for Medicare and Medicaid.
Wager, Lee, and Glaser, J. P. (2013) define a health information exchange (HEI) as "electronic movement of health related information among organizations according to nationally …show more content…
With the many different facts involved in this complex approach, the regulations that provide meaningful use (MU) have a profound impact on the effectiveness of the endeavor to produce better health care.
Rouse defines meaningful use attestation as follows "Meaningful use attestation, in a health information technology (HIT) context, is a process that documents that an organization or individual has successfully demonstrated meaningful use and is successfully fulfilling the requirements for electronic health records (EHR) and related technology." The stages of MU build upon the previous stage.
Meaningful Use Stage 1
Lundy defines the spirit of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and meaningful use (MU) as "The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) was intended to encourage physicians not just to adopt EHRs, but to use them in what the federal government described as a "meaningful" way. According to the federal govern ment, EHRs should be used by physicians to meet the following goals:
* improve quality, safety, and …show more content…
These objectives have higher thresholds and more difficult requirements than Stage 1. ." Lundy goes on to and argues that "The core measures that are most difficult for Resurgens are 1, 13, and 17" (2015). Resurgens Orthopaedics is a multispecialty orthopaedic practice that Lundy is affiliated. Measure 17 requires five percent of a physician's patients to use a portal to communicate with the physician. As far as hospitals, CPSI hospitals have "attested to meeting the Stage 2 objectives for Meaningful Use of a certified electronic health record (EHR)"
There are a variety of health care information related regulations, laws, and standards. These together through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act aim to produce better health care. These regulations, laws, and standards, cover items from the transfer of information between involved parties through what constitutes acceptable electronic health records (EHR) as defined for Medicare and Medicaid.
Wager, Lee, and Glaser, J. P. (2013) define a health information exchange (HEI) as "electronic movement of health related information among organizations according to nationally …show more content…
With the many different facts involved in this complex approach, the regulations that provide meaningful use (MU) have a profound impact on the effectiveness of the endeavor to produce better health care.
Rouse defines meaningful use attestation as follows "Meaningful use attestation, in a health information technology (HIT) context, is a process that documents that an organization or individual has successfully demonstrated meaningful use and is successfully fulfilling the requirements for electronic health records (EHR) and related technology." The stages of MU build upon the previous stage.
Meaningful Use Stage 1
Lundy defines the spirit of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and meaningful use (MU) as "The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) was intended to encourage physicians not just to adopt EHRs, but to use them in what the federal government described as a "meaningful" way. According to the federal govern ment, EHRs should be used by physicians to meet the following goals:
* improve quality, safety, and …show more content…
These objectives have higher thresholds and more difficult requirements than Stage 1. ." Lundy goes on to and argues that "The core measures that are most difficult for Resurgens are 1, 13, and 17" (2015). Resurgens Orthopaedics is a multispecialty orthopaedic practice that Lundy is affiliated. Measure 17 requires five percent of a physician's patients to use a portal to communicate with the physician. As far as hospitals, CPSI hospitals have "attested to meeting the Stage 2 objectives for Meaningful Use of a certified electronic health record (EHR)"