The ONC's meaningful use workgroup has composed its recommendations for stage 3 and will submit them to the Health IT Policy Committee Friday.
Stage 3 proposals include requirements that hospitals have multiple clinical decision support software systems that apply to areas like preventative care, chronic disease management and imaging test appropriateness, that they record each implanted devices' FDA Unique Device Identifier and other proposed requirements.
The proposals also suggest certified electronic health record systems have the ability to store and link to outside documents within a patient's record and have the ability to report on discrepancies between medication ordered and medication delivered, among other criteria.
Meaningful use stage 3 will begin in 2017 for providers that have completed two years of stage 2. More information on the stage 3 requirements and the 2017 Edition of the ONC Standards and Certification Criteria will be released in fall 2014, and a final rule is expected in the first half of 2015.
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