The Meaningful Use Stage 2 Finish Line

Hospitals across the country have until September 30 to complete their 2014 reporting period for Meaningful Use Stage 2.Recently Ashish Jha and Julia Adler-Milstein published important articles in Health Affairs about the current state of EHRs  and Health Information Exchange .  What can we learn about the status of Meaningful Use Stage 2 across the country?The trajectory is very positive but the position is less than perfect.    Hospitals are struggling with patient view/download/transmit and provider/provider transition of care summaries.   Eligible professionals, often with limited resources, are implementing Stage 2 certified software less rapidly than hoped.   As Beth Israel Deaconess completes it’s 2014 reporting period, we’re very close, approaching the finish line.We’ve certified all our self built systems for both inpatient and ambulatory 2014 criteria.We’ve outsourced the Meaningful Use quality measure computations to the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. Last week we completed a milestone, using our self built iPhone/iPad-based electronic medication record (EMAR) to administer the one millionth medication dose since go live.  Our 10th inpatient unit is now live with 100% of doses bar coded.   The Emergency Department goes live in early September.The patient View/Download/Transmit function is undergoing broad rollout and we’re on target to surpass the 5% Meaningful Use transaction volume requirement.   Althou...
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