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What is Meaningful Use?

Meaningful Use became one of the most frequently used terms in the healthcare industry in 2009. On July 13, 2010, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced the final ruling for the EHR Incentive Program based upon Stage 1 of Meaningful Use. This phase of adoption is focused on health care professionals using certified EHR technology to improve health outcomes in the following areas:

Improve the quality of care, efficiencies and safety in treating patients
Reduce health disparities
Engage patients and families
Improve care coordination
Improve population and public health
Guarantee adequate privacy and security protection of PHI

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Acronyms to Know :

ACO – Accountable Care Organization
API – Application Programming Interface
ARRA – American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
ASP – Application Service Provider
ATCB – Authorized Testing and Certification Body
ATNA – Audit Trail and Node Authentication
BHIE – Bidirectional Health Information Exchange
CAH – Critical Access Hospital
CBO – Community-Based Organization
CCD – Continuity of Care Document (CCR + CDA became CCD)
CCHIT – Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
CCR – Continuity of Care Record
CDA – Clinical Document Architecture
CDO – care delivery organization
CDR – Clinical Data Repository
CDS – clinical decision support
CDSS – clinical decision support system
CFR – Code of Federal Regulations
CHC – Connected Healthcare Community
CHPL – Certified Health IT Product List
CHR – Community Health Records
CLIA – Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments
CMIO – Chief Medical Information/Informatics Officer
CMV – Controlled Medical Vocabulary
CPOE – Computerized physician order entry
DBE – Documenting by exception
EH – Eligible Hospital
EMR/EHR – electronic medical/health record
EP – Eligible Professional
FACA – Federal Advisory Committee Act
FHA - Federal Health Architecture
FIPS – Federal Information Processing Standards
FOA – Funding Opportunity Announcement
FOSS – Free and Open Source/Solutions Software
FQHC – Federally Qualified Health Center
HIE – Health Information Exchanges
HIM – Health Information Management
HIO – Health Information Organization
HIPAA – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIT – Health Information Technology
HITECH – Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
HPSA – Health Professional Shortage Areas
ICE – Integrated Community EHR
IFR – Interim Final Rule
IT – Information Technology
LOINC – Logical Observations Identifiers, Names, Codes
MA – Medicare Advantage
MCMP –Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration
MITA - Medicaid Information Technology Architecture
MU – Meaningful Use
NCVHS –National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
NHIN - Nationwide Health Information Network
NP – Nurse Practitioner
NPI –National Provider Identifier
NPRM – Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
NLP – Natural Language Processing
OMB –Office of Management and Budget
ONC - Office of the National Coordinator (preferred abbreviation for ONCHIT)
ONC-ATCB – ONC Authorized Testing and Certification Body
ONCHIT - Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
PA –Physician Assistant
PACS – picture archiving and communication systems
PCMH – Patient-Centered Medical Home
PECOS –Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System
PHI – Personal Health Information or Protected Health Information
PHR – Personal Health Record
PMS – Practice Management System
PPS –Prospective Payment System (Medicare Part A)
PQRI – Physician Quality Reporting Initiative
REC – Regional Extension Center
RHC –Rural Health Clinic
RHIO – Regional Health Information Organizations
RHQDAPU –Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update
SaaS – Software-as-a-Service product
SDO – Standards Development Organization
TIN –Taxpayer Identification Number
AAAAI – American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
AAHAM - American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management
AAPC - American Academy of Professional Coders
ACC – American College of Cardiology
ACRO – Association of Clinical Research Organizations
AHA - American Hospital Association
AHDI - Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity
AHIC – American Health Information Community (Now NeHC)
AHIMA – The American Health Information Management Association
AHRQ – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AMDIS - Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems
AMIA – American Medical Informatics Association
AMSPAR - The Association of Medical Secretaries, Practice Managers, Administrators and Receptionists
ANI – Alliance for Nursing Informatics
ANSI – American National Standards Institute
ASHHRA - American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration
ASTM - ASTM International – originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials
CCHIT – Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CHIME - College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
CMS – Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services
DMAA - Disease Management Association of America (now Care Continuum Alliance)
EHRVA – Electronic Health Record Vendors Association
FDA - Food and Drug Administration
HBMA – Healthcare Billing and Management Association
HIMSS - Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
HISPC - Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration
HITRC - National Health IT Research Center
HITSP – Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel
HHS – Department of Health and Human Services (link to recovery site)
HRSA - Health Resources and Services Administration (under HHS)
IHI - Institute for Healthcare Improvement
IHTSDO – International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization
IPA – Independent Practice Association
JCAHO - The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
MGMA - Medical Group Management Association
MSO – Medical Service Organization
MTIA - Medical Transcription Industry Association
MTSO – Medical Transcription Service Organization
NAHAM – National Association of Healthcare Access Management
NAHIT – National Alliance for Health Information Technology (Ceasing operation on 9/30/09)
NASCIO – National Association of State Chief Information Officers
NCVHS - National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
NeHC – National eHealth Collaborative
NHMA - National Hispanic Medical Association
NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
OCR – Office of Civil Rights (Dept of Health and Human Services)
PHO – Physician Hospital Organization
PAHCOM – Professional Association of Health Care Office Management
SHIRE – Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Inc.
TCBI – The Center for Business Innovation
TIPAAA - The IPA Association of America
WEDI - Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange

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