{"id":1257,"date":"2014-04-17T11:51:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T11:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2014-04-17T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T11:51:18","slug":"eligible-professionals-review-changes-in-stage-1-meaningful-use-criteria-that-begin-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/eligible-professionals-review-changes-in-stage-1-meaningful-use-criteria-that-begin-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Eligible Professionals: Review Changes in Stage 1 Meaningful Use Criteria that Begin in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a Medicare <a title=\"eligible professional\" href=\"http:\/\/cms.gov\/apps\/ehealth-eligibility\/ehealth-eligibility-assessment-tool.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">eligible professional<\/a> who is participating or planning to participate in Stage 1 of the Medicare or Medicaid EHR Incentive Program this year? The Stage 2 rule for meaningful use included changes to Stage 1 requirements that took effect on January 1, 2014.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Eligible-min.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1258\" src=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Eligible-min.jpg\" alt=\" eligible professional\" width=\"700\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Eligible-min.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Eligible-min-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These changes include:<\/p>\n<p>Record and Chart Changes in Vital Signs<\/p>\n<p>Change: The age limit increased for recording blood pressure in patients from age 2 to age 3; there is no age limit for height and weight.<\/p>\n<p>2014 Measure: For more than 50 percent of all unique patients seen by the eligible professional during the EHR reporting period, blood pressure (for patients age 3 and over only) and height and weight (for all ages) should be recorded as structured data.Patient Electronic Access<\/p>\n<p>Change: Menu objective \u201cTimely electronic access to health information\u201d and core objective \u201cElectronic copy of health information\u201d are combined tobecome the new \u201cView online, download, and transmit\u201d core objective.<\/p>\n<p>Patient Electronic Access<\/p>\n<p>Change: Menu objective \u201cTimely electronic access to health information\u201d and core objective \u201cElectronic copy of health information\u201d are combined tobecome the new \u201cView online, download, and transmit\u201d core objective.<\/p>\n<p>2014 Measure: More than 50 percent of all unique patients seen by the eligible professional during the EHR reporting period are provided timely (available to the patient within 4 business days after the information is available to the eligible professional) online access to their health information.<\/p>\n<p>Clinical Quality Measure (CQM) Reporting<\/p>\n<p>Change: Reporting CQMs is still required, but it has been removed as a separate objective.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 1 Resources<\/p>\n<p>Resources to help you understand changes to Stage 1 of meaningful use are available on the EHR Incentive Programs website, including:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stage 1 Changes Tipsheet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Regulations-and-Guidance\/Legislation\/EHRIncentivePrograms\/Downloads\/Stage1ChangesTipsheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Stage 1 Changes Tipsheet<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"2014 Stage 1 Changes Tipsheet\" href=\"http:\/\/cms.gov\/eHealth\/downloads\/eHealthU_Stage1Changes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2014 Stage 1 Changes Tipsheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a title=\"Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Regulations-and-Guidance\/Legislation\/EHRIncentivePrograms\/index.html?redirect=\/ehrincentiveprograms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs website<\/a> for the latest news and updates on the EHR Incentive Programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a Medicare eligible professional who is participating or planning to participate in Stage 1 of the Medicare or Medicaid EHR Incentive Program this year? The Stage 2 rule for meaningful use included changes to Stage 1 requirements that took effect on January 1, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[26,28,29],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ehr","tag-clinical-quality-measure-cqm-reporting","tag-eligible-professional","tag-meaningful-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}