Meaningful Use
Our Best in KLAS practice management and EHR services offer a proven model for securing Meaningful Use incentives for our client practices.
This is how.
96%
of our eligible clients attested for 2012 Meaningful Use Stage 1
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Meaningful Use Performance Dashboard as of 3/11/2013
Being on the cloud means we can continuously track our providers' performance on Meaningful Use measures across the network. Below is a network-wide view of how our clients in the Medicare Meaningful Use Stage 1 2012 program performed.
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Core Measures
1. Use Computerized Provider Order Entry for medication orders
2. Implement drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks
3. Maintain an up-to-date problem list of current/active diagnoses
4. Generate and transmit permissible prescriptions electronically
5. Maintain active medication list
6. Maintain active medication allergy list
9. Record smoking status for patients 13 years old or older
10. Report ambulatory clinical quality measures to CMS
11. Implement one clinical decision support rule
12. Provide patients with an e-copy of their health info upon request
13. Provide clinical summaries for patients for each office visit
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Menu Measures
Providers who satisfied required 5 of 10 menu measures:
16. Implement drug formulary checks
17. Incorporate clinical lab-test results as structured data
18. Generate patient lists by specific conditions
19. Send patient reminders for preventive or follow-up care
20. Provide patients with timely electronic access to their health information
21. Provide patient-specific education resources
22. Perform medication reconciliation
23. Provide summary of care record for each transition of care or referral
24. Submit electronic data to immunization registries
25. Submit electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health agencies
The "Meaningful Use Performance Dashboard" percentages compare the number of athenaClinicals providers that are actively pursuing Stage 1 Medicare Meaningful Use and meeting the requirements for the corresponding core or menu measure to the total number of athenaClinicals providers actively pursuing Stage 1 Medicare Meaningful Use and the corresponding core or menu measure. All athenaClinicals providers pursuing Stage 1 Medicare Meaningful Use meet the Medicare Meaningful Use Eligible Professional (EP) definition as described by CMS. For more information on the attestation percentages, click here.
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Testimonials
Dr. Eubanks: From Paper Charts to Meaningful Use in 6 Months Evergreen Family Medicine: Large Practice Achieves Meaningful Use Mount Auburn Hospital: Utilizing Meaningful Use Support PlanWebinar
Meaningful Use Stage 2: What You Should Know to Achieve the New StandardDatasheet
The athenahealth Meaningful Use AdvantageThe Meaningful Use program was introduced by the U.S. government as part of the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, encouraging health care providers to illustrate "meaningful use" of a certified electronic health record (EHR). For doing so, eligible providers receive incentive payments, with up to $39,000 available for providers who begin in 2013.
Why? To create an infrastructure that supports health care reform, promoting greater efficiencies, a strong health information exchange, and better patient care. Farzad Mostashari, M.D., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said, "It's what's right for the patient, and our goal as a country to get to better health, better healthcare and lower costs."*
As part of our ongoing commitment to clients' success, athenahealth is the only service to offer eligible providers a Meaningful Use guarantee for either Stage 1 or Stage 2 incentive payments. And we help every step of the way by embedding measures right into the EHR workflow, coaching, and even attesting on your behalf.
Meaningful Use Stage 1: Getting Started... and Getting Providers Paid
Launched in 2011, the Meaningful Use stage 1 emphasizes proper data capture and data sharing. Providers who meet the 15 core quality measures of Stage 1, and who satisfy five of 10 "menu measures," can attest and receive a Medicare incentive payment.
In 2012, we led the industry in Meaningful Use attestation, with 96% of our eligible providers attesting to Stage 1. And as the only EHR service to guarantee incentive payments—now, for Stage 1 or Stage 2—our success has always been aligned with that of our clients.
Meaningful Use Stage 2: Preparing for More and Tougher Requirements
Meaningful Use stage 2, which begins in 2014, demands an even greater level of reporting in an effort to put advanced processes into place and continually evolve nationwide EHR use.
Some Stage 1 menu measures will become mandatory core measures in Stage 2, and reporting thresholds will be more demanding. To prepare our client providers well ahead of time, we will put our 2014 Meaningful Use-certified EHR into place later in 2013.
athenahealth recommends our providers begin Stage 2 reporting as soon as the program allows, starting January 1, 2014. Our new Stage 2 workflows will be in place, and our coaching and technical teams ready to go.
The reason for this is simple: By starting Stage 2—and having us attest—as soon as possible, practices can focus on a daunting mandate that will be just months away: The ICD-10 code set compliance deadline on October 1, 2014.
For more information on Meaningful Use, visit our Meaningful Use Knowledge Hub
*Health Informatics, 8.24.12, http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/article/oncs-mostashari-bottom-line-it-s-about-what-s-right-patient, from National eHealth Collaborative Aug. 24, 2012 webinar.
Knowledge Hub
What is Meaningful Use? What are the Meaningful Use Stage 2 objectives? Get all the details on the Meaningful Use program in our Knowledge Hub.
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