CMS & ONC Define Meaningful Use and Set Standards for EHR Incentive Program
The December 30, 2009 release of the proposed Meaningful Use requirements from the CMS and ONC highlights the importance of healthcare terminology standards. In Stage 1, these proposed requirements focus on electronically capturing health information in coded format, reporting clinical quality measures, and triggering decision support.
HLI offers a variety of solutions to enable your institution or application to meet the proposed Meaningful Use criteria and participate in the associated incentive program:
- Our release of the HLI Clinician Friendly Terminology content set lets you capture problem lists in SNOMED CT and ICD-9-CM (and soon ICD-10-CM as well). Clinicians can search this content set for the clinical words they are accustomed to writing in the chart with abbreviations, colloquial expressions, and many thousands of additional synonyms.
- HLI now offers the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) measures in easy-to-use computerized download files. Use these files to easily search your repositories for eligible patients to report, and to receive pay-for-performance incentive payments of up to 2.0 percent. Several of these measures are now required for Meaningful Use reporting.
- The HLI RxNorm solutions, and HLI partnerships with all the leading drug terminology vendors, help you effectively maintain active medication and allergy lists.
- Our robust HLI Language Engine solutions enable your applications to easily reference all of these terminologies plus many more dynamically. In addition, our Web Services solutions provide a quick, simple mechanism for terminology-enabling your application now for meeting Meaningful Use requirements.
Contact Health Language today to learn more about the proposed Meaningful Use requirements and how HLI solutions can help you earn Meaningful Use and PQRI incentives.