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Health IT / Meaningful Use
Why Health IT?HIT / Meaningful Use / HIE (health IT) allows comprehensive management of medical information and its secure exchange between health care consumers and providers. Broad use of HIT has the potential to improve health care quality, prevent medical errors, increase the efficiency of care provision and reduce unnecessary health care costs, increase administrative efficiencies, decrease paperwork, expand access to affordable care, and improve population health.
Improving Patient Care
Interoperable health IT can improve individual patient care in numerous ways, including:
- Complete, accurate, and searchable health information, available at the point of diagnosis and care, allowing for more informed decision making to enhance the quality and reliability of health care delivery.
- More efficient and convenient delivery of care, without having to wait for the exchange of records or paperwork and without requiring unnecessary or repetitive tests or procedures.
- Earlier diagnosis and characterization of disease, with the potential to thereby improve outcomes and reduce costs.
- Reductions in adverse events through an improved understanding of each patient’s particular medical history, potential for drug-drug interactions, or (eventually) enhanced understanding of a patient's metabolism or even genetic profile and likelihood of a positive or potentially harmful response to a course of treatment.
- Increased efficiencies related to administrative tasks, allowing for more interaction with and transfer of information to patients, caregivers, and clinical care coordinators, and monitoring of patient care.
Meaningful Use
OverviewThe American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) authorizes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide reimbursement incentives for eligible professionals and hospitals who are successful in becoming “meaningful users” of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology. The Medicare EHR incentive program will provide incentive payments to eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that are meaningful users of certified EHR technology. The Medicaid EHR incentive program will provide incentive payments to eligible professionals and hospitals for efforts to adopt, implement, or upgrade certified EHR technology or for meaningful use in the first year of their participation in the program and for demonstrating meaningful use during each of five subsequent years.
CMS Fact Sheet
- Meaningful Use
- Medicare/Medicaid Incentive Program
- CMS Meaningful Use Frequently Asked Questions
- View the CMS press release
- AMA Recommendations for Defining and Demonstrating Meaningful Use of Certified Electronic Health Records (EHR’s)
- AMA Highlights of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Proposed Rule on Meaningful Use
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