DEVICE INTEGRATION
Meaningful Use and Device Interoperability
A hospital or eligible provider must be a meaningful user to receive payment incentives
By law, a “meaningful user” must:
1. Use a certified Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
2. Exchange health information
3. Report quality measures Policy priorities for Meaningful Use
By law, a “meaningful user” must:
1. Use a certified Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
2. Exchange health information
3. Report quality measures Policy priorities for Meaningful Use
Policy priorities for Meaningful Use
- Improve quality, safety, efficiency and reduce disparities. CareTrends: Accurate, complete, automated patient data capture is necessary to achieve these goals.
- Engage patients and families.
- Improve patient care coordination.
CareTrends: Requires accurate, complete, automated data capture. - Improve population and public health.
- Ensure adequate privacy and security.
The connection: Interoperable devices, as a domain, have significant potential to advance the policy priorities of Meaningful Use.
Benefits
Benefits of Medical Device Connectivity
- TImprove hospital workflow.
- Automate data flow and interface it to the Healthcare Information System application.
- Return nurses to the patient bedside, rather than spending time to manually enter patient data such as vital signs data from written on scraps of paper, into the EMR.
- Reduce errors caused by manually entered data, and provide single “source of truth” for patient ID and other key data.
- Increase patient safety at your hospital. Real time patient information allows clinicians to make more-informed decisions about patients.
- Reduce medical errors.
This process also enables healthcare providers to meet reporting requirements for quality measures required for Meaningful Use.