Meaningful Use refers to CMS standards for what purpose?

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Meaningful Use refers to CMS standards for what purpose?

Meaningful Use is the CMS framework that defines how eligible providers and hospitals should use certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to improve care and qualify for incentive payments. This isn’t about patient satisfaction, hospital accreditation, or data backup protocols. Rather, it consists of CMS-defined criteria in incentive programs that drive the use of EHRs to enhance quality, safety, efficiency, and care coordination, including interoperability with other systems. By attesting to meeting these criteria, providers and hospitals can receive incentive payments from Medicare and Medicaid. Over time, the program evolved into what’s now known as Promoting Interoperability, but the core idea remains using EHRs in meaningful, demonstrable ways.

Meaningful Use is the CMS framework that defines how eligible providers and hospitals should use certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to improve care and qualify for incentive payments. This isn’t about patient satisfaction, hospital accreditation, or data backup protocols. Rather, it consists of CMS-defined criteria in incentive programs that drive the use of EHRs to enhance quality, safety, efficiency, and care coordination, including interoperability with other systems. By attesting to meeting these criteria, providers and hospitals can receive incentive payments from Medicare and Medicaid. Over time, the program evolved into what’s now known as Promoting Interoperability, but the core idea remains using EHRs in meaningful, demonstrable ways.

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