Healthcare providers urged HHS' Health IT Policy Committee's meaningful use work group to add more goals to better coordinate care in the meaningful use financial incentive plan, according to a report by Government Health IT.
One of the proposed goals include sharing and merging patient medications into electronic records for better coordinated care, as patient receive treatments from multiple physicians. This helps to avoid duplication and potential adverse drug effects.
Physicians proposing the new goal say electronic health records should also display medication data from multiple other sources and compare medication lists in an easy-to-follow fashion. An example is to arrange problem lists in chronological order to help physicians more easily understand a patient's medical history.
Read the Government Health IT story about the proposed meaningful use goals.
Read other coverage on healthcare information technology:
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- Purdue University-Led Health IT Center to Help Indiana Physicians Achieve Meaningful Use
One of the proposed goals include sharing and merging patient medications into electronic records for better coordinated care, as patient receive treatments from multiple physicians. This helps to avoid duplication and potential adverse drug effects.
Physicians proposing the new goal say electronic health records should also display medication data from multiple other sources and compare medication lists in an easy-to-follow fashion. An example is to arrange problem lists in chronological order to help physicians more easily understand a patient's medical history.
Read the Government Health IT story about the proposed meaningful use goals.
Read other coverage on healthcare information technology:
- Office of the National Coordinator to Set Up Governance Rules for Nationwide Health Information Network
- Delaware Hospital System to Adopt Two New Health IT Initiatives
- Purdue University-Led Health IT Center to Help Indiana Physicians Achieve Meaningful Use