“Ever since the ONC made its recommendations to CMS for Meaningful Use and Certification of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), we have been commenting on several aspects of the 25 criteria categories needed to be eligible for HITECH incentives starting in 2011. We have commented on the question of Certification and stand-alone billing systems, and on challenges around interoperability, particularly with respect to statewide and regional Immunization Registries.
An additional area of challenge for establishing an eventual “plug-and-play” national health information system pertains to laboratory data. Incorporating clinical lab-test results into EHRs as structured data is one of the Meaningful Use criteria (criterion 10) – physicians must be able to demonstrate that >50% of clinical lab tests that were ordered (whose results were numeric or +/-) are incorporated as structured data.”
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers, 19 January 2010
