Meaningful Use Stage 2 NPRM

On Feb. 23, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the notice of proposed rule making  for the ONC meaningful use Stage 2 rule.  Please read the information below to know what it means for public health. 

Comments are due to CMS within 60 days from March 7, 2012 (the official release date of the notice of proposed rule making). Please help NACCHO submit comments to CMS on the Stage 2 NPRM, use the meaningful use feedback form to submit your comments.  

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Link:

• Stage 2 notice of proposed rule making document [PDF]- CMS
  

Key Points Relevant to LHDs:

• Stage 2 begins 2014
• One eligible professional (EP) = immunizations
  
• EPs have to pick 3 of 5 menu measures
  
• Two new public health Stage 2 EP menu measures:
• • Successful ongoing transmission of cancer case information
    
  • Successful ongoing transmission of data to a specialized registry
    

Core EP:

• One public health EP measure that moved from the Stage 1 menu to the Stage 2 core:
• • Successful on-going submission of immunization data
    
  • • Changed from testing to on-going submission
      

Menu EP:

• Successful ongoing transmission of syndromic surveillance data
  
• • New
    
  • Changed from testing to on-going submission
    

• Successful ongoing transmission of cancer case information
  
• • New
    
  • Changed from testing to on-going submission 

• Successful ongoing transmission of data to a specialized registry
  
• • New
    
  • Changed from testing to on-going submission

Eligible Hospital (EH) measures:

• Three public health EH measures that moved from the menu to the core for Stage 2:
• • Successful ongoing transmission of immunization data
    
  • Successful ongoing submission of electronic syndromic surveillance data
    
  • Successful ongoing submission of reportable laboratory results 

• No public health EH measures in the menu

• The on-going submission requires the provider and the public health agencies to identify an electronic process for data to move from EHRs to public health 
• • Efficient
    
  • Automated
    
  • Secure