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Menu Set – Patient Reminders
Objective: Send reminders to patients per patient preference for preventive/follow-up care.
Measure: More than 20 percent of all patients 65 years or older or 5 years old or younger were sent an appropriate reminder during the EHR reporting period.
Exclusion: An EP who has no patients 65 years old or older or 5 years old or younger with records maintained using certified EHR technology.
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Menu Set – Medication Reconciliation
Objective: The EP who receives a patient from another setting of care or provider of care or
believes an encounter is relevant should perform medication reconciliation.
Measure: The EP performs medication reconciliation for more than 50 percent of transitions of care in which the patient is transitioned into the care of the EP.
Exclusion: An EP who was not the recipient of any transitions of care during the EHR reporting
period.
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Demonstrating Meaningful Use – ePrescribe
Objective: Generate and transmit permissible prescriptions electronically (eRx).
Measure: More than 40 percent of all permissible prescriptions written by the EP are transmitted electronically using certified EHR technology.
Exclusion: Any EP who writes fewer than 100 prescriptions during the EHR reporting period.
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Please Note: Chiropractors are excluded from this Meaningful Use item.
Menu Set – Provide Patients Education Resources
Objective: Use certified EHR technology to identify patient-specific education resources and provide those resources to the patient if appropriate.
Measure: More than 10 percent of all unique patients seen by the EP are provided patient-specific education resources.
Exclusion: No exclusion.
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Menu Set – Patient Electronic Access
Objective: Objective Provide patients with timely electronic access to their health information (including lab results, problem list, medication lists, and allergies) within 4 business days of the information being available to the EP.
Measure: At least 10 percent of all unique patients seen by the EP are provided timely (available to the patient within four business days of being updated in the certified EHR
technology) electronic access to their health information subject to the EP’s discretion to withhold certain information.
Exclusion: Exclusion Any EP that neither orders nor creates lab tests or information that would be contained in the problem list, medication list, medication allergy list (or other information as listed at 45 CFR 170.304(g)) during the EHR reporting period.
Full Details: PDF
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