15 May 2016
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) unveiled its proposed 2015 edition for Electronic Health Records (EHR). Meaningful Use is ending and will be replaced by another program. A look into the objectives and hurdles doctors will face in 2018 trying to comply will include the following:
- More than 25% of patients seen by an EP or discharged from a hospital or emergency department (ED) must "actively engage" with their electronic records.
- More than 35% of patients seen by an EP or discharged from a hospital or ED, a secure message must be sent using the EHR's secure messaging function or in response to a secure message sent by the patient.
- Patient-generated data from a nonclinical setting must be incorporated into the EHR for more than 15% of patients seen by the EP or discharged from a hospital or ED.
- EPs and hospitals must use their EHR to create a summary of care and electronically exchange it with other providers for more than 50% of transitions of care and referrals.
- In more than 40% of these transitions of care, the provider has to incorporate in its EHR a summary of care from an EHR used by a different provider.
- In more than 80% of transitions of care, the provider has to perform a "clinical information reconciliation" that includes not only medications and allergies, but also problem lists.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is making interoperability a priority beginning in 2018. ViewMyHealthRecords.com will continue to the lead the market in providing patients online access to their health records. If you are not a registered user, please have your healthcare provider contact ViewMyHealthRecords.com to learn how you can become a registered user.