The agency will post the updated version on its website “shortly,” a CMS official said. The update would provide more detailed descriptions of each of the meaningful use objectives and measures, but no offer further information was offered. The clarifications which will affect the first stage of meaningful use, to begin in 2011.
The news came at a CMS meeting examining preliminary requirements for the second stage of meaningful use, which starts in 2013. That stage involves raising the level of performance required for computerized physician orders, electronic prescribing and other measures begun in the first stage.
Read the Government Health IT report on meaningful use.
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