Meaningful Use Stage I
Core Objectives
 MAQ Dashboard= Meaningful Use, Adoption, Quality
Dashboard
 Tool to measure provider and practice performance on
meaningful adoption of EHR, population trends, and
chronic disease/preventative care management
 Data is not extracted realtime-The extraction of the
previous month data is done in the first few days of
each month.
Common term definitions
EP-Eligible provider
Unique patients-If the patient is seen by the EP more than once
during the reporting period, that patient is included in the
denominator once.
Denominator- The number of patients that meet the objective criteria
Numerator-The number of patients from the denominator that have
documentation in the medical record which satisfies the objective
Reportable visit types-Excludes telephone encounter, virtual visit.
Other visit types have been manually excluded as well.
OBJ304A -CPOE
 More than 30% of all unique patients with at least one
medication in their medication list have at least one
medication ordered using CPOE(Computerized order
entry)
 Must be a reportable visit type
 Involves all methods of recording medications in a
structured manner. This includes Order Sets, Templated,
e-prescription, eClinisense and manually ordered
medications from the treatment window of progress note
OBJ302-C
Up to date problem list
 More than 80% of all unique patients seen by EP have
at least one entry or an indication that no problems are
known for the patient recorded as structured data
 Must be a reportable visit type
 Add any current and chronic problems to the problem
list or check the No known problems box
OBJ304-B
Generate and transmit eRX
 More than 40% of all permissible prescriptions written
by the EP must be transmitted electronically to
pharmacies
**Generating and transmitting a fax does NOT
constitute electronic prescription
OBJ302-D
Maintain active medication list
 More than 80% of all unique patients seen by the EP
must have at least one entry or an indication that the
patient is not currently prescribed any medication
recorded as structured data
 Medications recorded in the current medications
section of progress note.
** The medications verified box must be checked
OBJ-302-E Active
medication/allergy list
 More than 80% of all unique patients seen by EP must
have at least one entry or indication that the patient
has no known medication allergies recorded as
structured data
** Must be a reportable visit type
Allergies verified box must be checked for every
encounter
OBJ-304C Recording demographics
 More than 50% of all unique patients seen by EP must
have demographics entered as structured data
 Preferred language, gender, race, ethnicity, date of
birth
**Must be a reportable visit type
OBJ-302F-Record vital signs
 For more than 50% of all unique patients age 2 and
over seen by EP must have height, weight, blood
pressure and BMI recorded as structured data plot and
display growth charts for children 2-20yrs
** Must be a reportable visit type
 When height, weight and blood pressure are recorded,
BMI is automatically calculated and growth charts are
plotted.
** Even specialists must document all 3-height, weight,
B/P
OBJ-302G Record smoking status
 More than 50% of all unique patients 13 years or older
seen by EP must have their smoking status recorded as
structured data
**Must be a reportable visit type
 Complete the tobacco control smartform once for
patients seen during 90 day reporting period.
OBJ-304F Electronic copy of health
information
 More than 50% of all patients of the EP who request an
electronic copy of their health information must be
provided it within 3 business days
 Patient information additional information,
structured tab for documentation.
 Office Managers / Coordinators have access to run
registry report-Registry-Demographics
***Only one person can be in registry at a time
OBJ-304H Clinical visit summaries
 Clinical summaries must be provided to patients for
more than 50% of all office visits within 3 business
days
 Visit summaries may be printed from progress note or
resource schedule
OBJ-203A Drug interaction
checks*not on MAQ
 All medications prescribed to patients must be
checked against all other medications as well as all
known allergies/intolerance in order to determine
if there are any potential harmful interactions
 File-settings-My settings-User settings
Pop up drug interaction window when interaction
is: check mild, moderate or severe
 Reports-EMR-drug interaction report logs
OBJ- 304I Exchange key clinical
information*not on MAQ
 Providers must perform at least one test with another
provider using certified EHR
 File-settings my settings-eclinicalworks P2P to join
 Outgoing referral-Send electronically via P2P
 Video and FAQs will be available on website
OBJ-302O-W Comply with HIPAA
rules*not on MAQ
 Conduct or review a security risk analysis, implement
security updates as necessary, and correct identified
security deficiencies as part of a risk management
process
 Session timeout =30 minutes
 Password authentication lockout after 5 attempts
 Strong password
The END
 There 2 Core objectives will be covered in Meaningful
Use class 2
 OBJ-304J Clinical quality measures
 OBJ-304E Implement one clinical decision support
rule(CDSS)
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