Is Meaningful Use Beneficial To Patients?
"Meaningful use" refers to practices that should be used by doctors and hospitals using electronic medical records. Physicians and hospitals have been directed as to what tasks they should be using their EHR, what constitutes certified EHR technology, and how the government measures this criteria. To qualify for specific incentives, hospitals and physicians must use "certified EHR technology" in a meaningful manner during the Stage 1 (2011) EHR adoption period.
But there is much more to it than that; 'meaningful use' of electronic medical record keeping is designed to benefit both the patient and their caregiver. Meaningful use refers to doctors, hospitals and clinics that have been able to significantly improve the quality of patient care through the use of electronic records.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), "meaningful use" is defined as using an EHR for the following objectives:
• Improving quality, safety, efficiency, care coordination, population and public health;
• Reducing health disparities;
• Engaging patients and their families; and,
• Ensuring adequate privacy and security protections for personal health information
"Meaningful use" refers to practices that should be used by doctors and hospitals using electronic medical records. Physicians and hospitals have been directed as to what tasks they should be using their EHR, what constitutes certified EHR technology, and how the government measures this criteria. To qualify for specific incentives, hospitals and physicians must use "certified EHR technology" in a meaningful manner during the Stage 1 (2011) EHR adoption period.
But there is much more to it than that; 'meaningful use' of electronic medical record keeping is designed to benefit both the patient and their caregiver. Meaningful use refers to doctors, hospitals and clinics that have been able to significantly improve the quality of patient care through the use of electronic records.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), "meaningful use" is defined as using an EHR for the following objectives:
• Improving quality, safety, efficiency, care coordination, population and public health;
• Reducing health disparities;
• Engaging patients and their families; and,
• Ensuring adequate privacy and security protections for personal health information
Hi, meaningful use... though a criteria for stimulus package; in the end its helpful to the patients only by way of improvement in the quality of service.
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