Attesting for Meaningful Use

A good blog post on Meaningful Use (MU) attestation by Houston Neal.

Dr. Kevin Spencer, a physician that recently attested to meaningful use, provides three tips to make successfully attesting easier for other practices. According to Dr. Spencer, the key components to successfully attesting were:

• Choosing the right EHR software company;
• Undergoing meaningful use training; and,
• Changing documentation processes to fit meaningful use guidelines.

How to Achieve Meaningful Use

See this easy to understand article summarizing meaningful use.

Providers skeptical of meaningful use reimbursement process

Providers skeptical of meaningful use reimbursement process"Under a draft of potential measures released in September by the HIT Policy Committee, eligible providers would have to use CPOE (computerized physician order entry) for all orders, implement drug-drug, drug allergy and drug-formulary checks and maintain an up-to-date problem list of current and active diagnoses based on ICD-9 or SNOMED.
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The issue of interoperability with hospitals in the local community is essential:
"...physicians from small practices often interact with more than five community hospitals and several labs, each with a different system. Doctors need to know that whatever electronic health record they buy will work with the systems the labs and hospitals have."