Meaningful Use Criteria – Core Set
| Objective | Measure | ABELMed’s Solution | |
| 1 | Use computerized physician order entry (CPOE) for medication orders directly entered by any licensed healthcare professional who can enter orders into the medical record per state, local and professional guidelines. | More than 30% of unique patients with at least one medication in their medication list seen by the EP have at least one medication order entered using CPOE | ABELMed makes it easy for clinicians to order medications for their patients by using computerized physician order entry (CPOE) right from the Encounter Note and then print fax or electronically send them through Surescripts certified e-prescribing solution.
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| 2 | Implement drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks | The EP has enabled this functionality for the entire EHR reporting period | Drug-to-Drug and Drug-to-Allergy checks are automatically performed every time a medication is prescribed in ABELMed. View ABELMed Screen |
| 3 | Generate and transmit permissible prescriptions electronically (eRx) | More than 40% of all permissible prescriptions written by the EP are transmitted electronically using certified EHR technology | ABELMed comes complete with a Surescripts-Certified e-Prescribing solution. With ABELMed ePrescriber, you are able to submit e-prescriptions and electronic refills to retail and mail-order pharmacies as well as obtain drug eligibility, benefits, formulary information and patient medication history data. View ABELMed Screen |
| 4 | Record demographics: preferred language, gender, race, ethnicity, date of birth | More than 50% of all unique patients seen by the EP have demographics recorded as structured data | All of the Meaningful Use mandatory fields for demographic information, as well as many, many more, are available as structured data fields in ABELMed’s patient Personal Information. View ABELMed Screen |
| 5 | Maintain an up-to-date problem list of current and active diagnoses | More than 80% of all unique patients seen by the EP have at least one entry or an indication that no problems are known for the patient recorded as structured data | ABELMed’s ICD-9-CM based Problem List is viewable at every patient visit. You can easily keep your patients’ Problem Lists up to date by adding to them directly from the patient Encounter note. View ABELMed Screen |
| 6 | Maintain active medication list | More than 80% of all unique patients seen by the EP have at least one entry (or an indication that the patient is not currently prescribed any medication) recorded as structured data | ABELMed maintains active medications list for each patient as structured data and conveniently displays it in various areas of the program to assist the health care professional in providing optimal care to the patient. This information is automatically updated as new prescriptions and refills are entered. View ABELMed Screen |
| 7 | Maintain active medication allergy list | More than 80% of all unique patients seen by the EP have at least one entry (or an indication that the patient has no known medication allergies) recorded as structured data | ABELMed captures each patient’s current Allergy list as structured data and conveniently displays it in various areas of the program to assist the health care professional in providing safe and optimal care to the patient. Medication allergy entered in one area is automatically updated throughout the program, thus avoiding duplicate data entry and minimizing adverse reactions. View ABELMed Screen |
| 8 | Record and chart changes in vital signs: height, weight, blood pressure, calculate and display BMI, plot and display growth charts for children 2-20 years including BMI | For more than 50% of all unique patients age 2 or over seen by the EP, height, weight and blood pressure are recorded as structured data | ABELMed provides the ability to record all Meaningful Use vital signs as structured data. Vital Signs are easy to enter into the patient’s Encounter Note and BMI is automatically calculated based upon the patient’s height and weight. Growth Charts for children and vitals graphs for patients of any age can be displayed in ABELMed. View ABELMed Screen |
| 9 | Record smoking status for patients 13 years or older | More than 50% of all unique patients 13 years old or older seen by the EP have smoking status recorded | Clinicians can define all patients’ Smoking Status (as structured data) directly into the patient’s Encounter Note. View ABELMed Screen |
| 10 | Implement one clinical decision support rule relevant to specialty or high clinical priority along with the ability to track compliance with that rule | Implement one clinical decision support rule | ABELMed allows you to define CDSS rules based on a patient’s Age, Gender and Diagnosis. In addition, you can customize rules and alerts for any patient condition required. View ABELMed Screen |
| 11 | Report clinical quality measures to CMS (Medicare EHR Incentive Program) or States (Medicaid EHR Incentive Program) | For 2011, provide aggregate numerator, denominator, and exclusions through attestation as discussed in section II(A)(3) of the Final Rule For 2012, electronically submit the clinical quality measures discussed in section II(A)(3) of the Final Rule | ABELMed can display the aggregate numerator and denominator values for the required clinical quality measures. ABELMed has been ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certified by CCHIT® on the following ten measures. Additional measures will be certified in the near future.
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| 12 | Provide patients with an electronic copy of their health information (including diagnostic test results, problem list, medication lists, medication allergies) upon request | More than 50% of all patients of the EP who request an electronic copy of their health information are provided it within 3 business days | Patients can be provided with an electronic copy of their health information either through a download from ABELMed onto the medium of the patient’s choice or real-time access at the patient’s convenience through ABELMed’s patient portal, ABELMed Portal. View ABELMed Screen |
| 13 | Provide clinical summaries for patients for each office visit | Clinical summaries provided to patients for more than 50% of all office visits within 3 business days | ABELMed automatically generates the current encounter summary as the health care professional is generating a progress note. This summary can be printed for the patient at the end of the visit while he/she is at the office, displayed on the patient portal or generated as a CCD document. View ABELMed Screen |
| 14 | Capability to exchange key clinical information (for example, problem list, medication list, medication allergies, diagnostic test results), among providers of care and patient authorized entities electronically | Performed at least one test of certified EHR technology's capacity to electronically exchange key clinical information | The Continuity of Care Record (CCD) document contains all the key clinical information about a patient. ABELMed users can generate a patient CCD document on demand and securely share it with appropriate recipients. In addition, ABELMed can accept and store electronic CCD or CCR documents and display or print them in a friendly format for users or patients. View ABELMed Screen |
| 15 | Protect electronic health information created or maintained by the certified EHR technology through the implementation of appropriate technical capabilities | Conduct or review a security risk analysis per 45 CFR 164.308 (a)(1) of the Final Rule and implement security updates as necessary and correct identified security deficiencies as part of its risk management process | ABELMed is fully compliant with all security and privacy standards associated with CCHIT 2011 Complete EHR and CCHIT ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 specifications. While a secure EHR/EMR system is critical to the protection of health information, it is also critical that medical practices follow security best practices within their organization to protect their electronic health information according to HIPAA guidelines. |
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