Summary of Key Provisions in Final Rule for Stage 2 HITECH Meaningful Use

Author:

Jane Metzger, Jared Rhoads

Current as of November 28, 2012

The final rules for Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive (EHR) Programs were released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator, respectively, on August 23, 2012. These specify the meaningful use criteria that eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals must meet in order to continue to participate in the program, the certification requirements for EHR technology that qualifies for use in the program, and the data and transmission standards to be incorporated into the Certified Electronic Health Record Technology providers are to use in achieving meaningful use. This paper provides a summary of the key provisions.

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