The National Committee for Quality Assurance has released new standards for its Patient-Centered Medical Home program, which is aligned with meaningful use and can help primary care physicians adopt health IT in order to achieve incentive payments, according to an NCQA news release.
The new PCMH standards include parental decision-making, teen privacy and guardianship, communication between healthcare facilities about newborns' lab results and guidelines for transitions from pediatric to adult care. The standards include meaningful use language, which officials say will encourage physicians to practice health IT and prepare them for meaningful use criteria.
Read the news release about PCMH 2011.
Read other coverage about meaningful use:
- ONC Awards $80M More in Funding to RECs, HIEs and Workforce Programs
- GOP Bill Puts Meaningful Use, HITECH Act in Peril
- Physicians Struggle to Identify Technologies That Achieve Meaningful Use
The new PCMH standards include parental decision-making, teen privacy and guardianship, communication between healthcare facilities about newborns' lab results and guidelines for transitions from pediatric to adult care. The standards include meaningful use language, which officials say will encourage physicians to practice health IT and prepare them for meaningful use criteria.
Read the news release about PCMH 2011.
Read other coverage about meaningful use:
- ONC Awards $80M More in Funding to RECs, HIEs and Workforce Programs
- GOP Bill Puts Meaningful Use, HITECH Act in Peril
- Physicians Struggle to Identify Technologies That Achieve Meaningful Use