Meaningful Use Requirements
What are the Criteria for Meaningful Use?
The criteria for meaningful use will be staged in three steps over the course of the next five years.
- Stage 1 (2011 and 2012) sets the baseline for electronic data capture and information sharing
- Stage 2 (expected to be implemented in 2013)
- Stage 3 (expected to be implemented in 2015) will continue to expand on this baseline and be developed through future rule making
What are the requirements for Stage 1 of Meaningful Use (2011 and 2012)?
- Meaningful use includes both a core set and a menu set of objectives that are specific to eligible professionals or eligible hospitals and CAHs.
- For eligible professionals, there are a total of 25 meaningful use objectives. To qualify for an incentive payment, 20 of these 25 objectives must be met.
- There are 15 required core objectives
- The remaining 5 objectives may be chosen from the list of 10 menu set objectives
- For eligible hospitals and CAHs, there are a total of 24 meaningful use objectives. To qualify for an incentive payment, 19 of these 24 objectives must be met
- There are 14 required core objectives
- The remaining 5 objectives may be chosen from the list of 10 menu set objectives
What are “Clinical Quality Measures”?
- Eligible hospitals and CAHs must report on all 15 of their clinical quality measures
- Eligible professionals must report on 6 total clinical quality measures: 3 required core measures (substituting alternate core measures where necessary) and 3 additional measures (selected from a set of 38 clinical quality measures).
- To demonstrate meaningful use successfully, eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and CAHs are required also to report clinical quality measures specific to eligible professionals or eligible hospitals and CAHs
