Meaningful Use

Meaningful use is using certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to: Improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce health disparities. Engage patients and family. Improve care coordination, and population and public health.

Meaningful use, which CMS changed to "advancing care information" and rolled out under the Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System, will now be called "promoting interoperability."

Auto bumpers and HealthIT Interoperability

Posted: March 29,2016

Ralph Nadar's book Unsafe At Any Speed raised public awareness of some of the safety problems associated with the Chevrolet Corvair.  Nadar’s book, however, was also an indictment of the auto industry as a whole and served as a lightning rod for legislation establishing what would eventually become the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA). 

These two industries, HealthIT and automobiles have quite a lot in common including that they are both highly regulated.  These regulations exist because in both industries poor design can lead to safety issues and the possible death of their user’s.

ONC has posted the final 2015 Edition Test Method

The 2015 Edition Final Test Method has been posted and additional test procedure tools have been added. It can be accessed on the ONC Health IT Certification Program webpage.

The test procedures offer objective guidance to Accredited Testing Laboratories (ATLs) as they conduct Health IT module testing in the ONC Health IT Certification Program, to provide traceability from the certification criterion or criteria to testing activities, and to ensure consistency throughout the certification process.

The new Test Procedures format includes a grid of testing components that the ATLs would use as the test approach for that particular criterion.

The Final Test Method outlines the requirements for evaluating conformance of health IT Modules to the certification criteria defined in the ONC 2015 Edition Final Rule (45 CFR Part 170 Subpart II) published in the Federal Register on October 16, 2015.

Here is a direct link to the Safety-Enhanced Design (aka Usability) portion of the 2015 edition certification:

https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/170_315_g3_safety_enhanced_...

The Usability People would welcome the opportunity to work with you on improving the Usability of Healthcare IT.

For Usability evaluations of your EHR: contact The Usability People

The Usability People
Together we may save a life! #SafeHealthIT

ONC's 2015 Edition Final Rule Presentation

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ONC hosted a webinar on the 2015 Edition health IT certification criteria final rule. There were over 1,500 attendees who participated.

The presentation covered:

  • Goals of the Final Rule
  • Highlights of the ONC Health IT Certification Program
  • 2015 Edition – Changes Compared to the Proposed Rule and the 2014 Edition
  • Certification to the 2015 Edition Use Cases (Meaningful Use and Beyond)

Additional information, including a press release and fact sheet, is available on HealthIT.gov.

ONC Final Rule for 2015 Certification Criteria: Safety-enhanced design

Posted: October 7,2015

The final rule for the ONC 2015 certification has been released.

The 550+ page document identifies a number of changes from the previously published proposed rule in direct response to a number of comments provided to ONC.

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