Interoperability – The Next Priority of ONC

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) unveiled its proposed 2015 edition for Electronic Health Records (EHR). Meaningful Use as we know it is over and will be replaced by another program. A look into the objectives and obstacles doctors will face in 2018 trying to comply will include the following:

1. More than 35% of patients seen by an EP or discharged from a hospital or ED, a secure message must be sent using the EHR's secure messaging function or in response to a secure message sent by the patient.
2. More than 25% of patients seen by an EP or discharged from a hospital or emergency department (ED) must "actively engage" with their electronic records.
3. Patient-generated data from a nonclinical setting must be incorporated into the EHR for more than 15% of patients seen by the EP or discharged from a hospital or ED.
4. EPs and hospitals must use their EHR to create a summary of care and electronically exchange it with other providers for more than 50% of transitions of care and referrals.
5. In more than 40% of these transitions of care, the provider has to incorporate in its EHR a summary of care from an EHR used by a different provider.
6. In more than 80% of transitions of care, the provider has to perform a "clinical information reconciliation" that includes not only medications and allergies, but also problem lists.

As the leader in high performance EHR technology, MD Logic looks forward to developing these new mandates into the MD Logic EHR software. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) plan is to make interoperability a reality beginning January 1, 2018.

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