The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have just released the Stage 2 Meaningful Use regulations for the Electronic Health Records Incentive Programs. The regulations can be found at:
- CMS – http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2012-21050_PI.pdf
- ONC – http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2012-20982_PI.pdf
A fact sheet on CMS’s final rule is available at http://www.cms.gov/apps/media/fact_sheets.asp.
A fact sheet on ONC’s standards and certification criteria final rule is available at http://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/meaningful-use-stage-2-0.
We will provide more information once we have reviewed the rules.
When will the CMS Stage 2 for Dummies be available so that we can map out what we need to do prior to Jan 2013? The guidelines of which I speak were reasonably delineated for Stage 1 and were helpful in figuring out “Government Bureaucrat Speak.” Example:Eligible Professional
Meaningful Use Table of Contents
Core and Menu Set Objectives