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CCDA Reconciliation Screen To open a patient’s record from Transfer of Care or Referral in the CCDA Reconciler, perform a search in the Direct Message Report, then double click on the message you want to open. After the message opens, click “See C-CDA document” to open the referral or transfer of care in the CCDARead more

Checking Your Meaningful Use Reports Checking your Meaningful Use reports is an important step in the process of meeting Meaningful Use. If checked regularly it can help the practice gauge what specific objectives may need a little additional work done within the practice to achieve the objectives. How to check your Meaningful Use Reports: Click Reports fromRead more

Alabama http://www.adph.org/epi/Default.asp?id=5049 Alaska http://dhss.alaska.gov/HIT/Meaningfuluse/Pages/Default.aspx Arizona http://www.azdhs.gov/meaningful-use/index.htm Arkansas http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/programsServices/MeaningfulUse/Pages/default.aspx California http://hie.cdph.ca.gov/ Colorado https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/categories/services-and-information/health/meaningful-use-health-records Connecticut http://www.ct.gov/dph/cwp/view.asp?a=3936&q=462960 Delaware http://dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/meaningfuluse.html District of Columbia http://doh.dc.gov/page/meaningful-use-mu-public-health-reporting Florida http://www.floridahealth.gov/diseases-and-conditions/disease-reporting-and-management/florida-meaningful-use.html Georgia https://dph.georgia.gov/meaningful-use Hawaii http://health.hawaii.gov/docd/dib/meaningful-use/ Idaho http://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/Providers/PublicHealthMeaningfulUseReporting/tabid/2486/Default.aspx Illinois https://www.illinois.gov/sites/ilhie/Pages/publichealth.aspx Indiana https://gateway.isdh.in.gov/MUSSE/default.aspx Iowa http://idph.iowa.gov/informationmanagement/meaningful-use Kansas http://www.kdheks.gov/health/meaningful_use/ Kentucky http://khie.ky.gov/tech/Pages/publichealthreporting.aspx Louisiana http://new.dhh.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/page/1992/n/411 Maine http://www.maine.gov/hit/public-health/ Maryland Massachusetts http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/gov/departments/dph/programs/id/isis/meaningful-use-and-public-health-objectives.html Michigan https://michiganhealthit.org/public-health/ Minnesota http://www.health.state.mn.us/e-health/meaningfuluse.html Mississippi http://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/14,0,356.html Missouri http://health.mo.gov/atoz/mophie/ Montana http://dphhs.mt.gov/publichealth/meaningfuluse.aspxRead more

Clinical Quality Measures Clinical quality measures, or CQMs, are tools that help measure and track the quality of health care services provided by eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) within our health care system. These measures use data associated with providers’ ability to deliver high-quality care or relate to long term goalsRead more

Public Health Reporting – Objective 10 About this Objective: The EP is in active engagement with a public health agency to submit electronic public health data from CEHRT except where prohibited and in accordance with applicable law and practice. Measures: Measure 1 – Immunization Registry Reporting: The EP is in active engagement with a public health agencyRead more

Secure Messaging – Objective 9 About the Objective: Use secure electronic messaging to communicate with patients on relevant health information. Measure: For an EHR reporting period in 2016, for at least 1 patient seen by the EP during the EHR reporting period, a secure message was sent using the electronic messaging function of CEHRT to theRead more

Patient Electronic Access – Objective 8 About this Objective: Provide patients the ability to view online, download, and transmit their health information within 4 business days of the information being available to the EP. Measure: EP’s must satisfy both measures in order to meet this objective: Measure 1: More than 50% of all unique patients seenRead more

Medication Reconciliation – Objective 7 About this 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 who performs medication reconciliation for more than 50% of transitions of care in which the patient is transitioned into the care ofRead more

Provide Patient Education – Objective 6 About this Objective: Use clinically relevant information from Certified EHR Technology to identify patient-specific education resources and provide those resources to the patient. Measure: Patient-specific education resources identified by Certified EHR Technology are provided to patients for more than 10% of all unique patients with office visits seen by the EPRead more

Health Information Exchange – Objective 5 About this Objective: The EP who transitions their patient to another setting of care or provider of care or refers their patient to another provider of care should provide summary care record for each transition of care or referral. Measure: The EP that transitions or refers their patient to another settingRead more