Stage 1 Criteria for Meaningful Use
Core Set (must meet all 15)
Objective
Record patient demographics such as
ethnicity, date of birth, preferred
language, sex, and race.
Maintain list of up-to-date problems for
current and active diagnoses.
Maintain list of active medications.
Maintain list of active medication
allergies.
Smoking status recorded for patients
13 years of age and over.
Provide patients with an electronic
copy of their health information upon
request (including medication list,
medication allergies, test results, and
problem list).
Capability to exchange key clinical
information electronically among
providers and patient-authorized
entities.
Implement systems to protect security
and privacy of patient data in the HER.
Provide patients with clinical
summaries for each office visit.
Record vital signs and chart changes
such as blood pressure, body mass
index, height and weight.
Generate and transmit permissible
prescriptions electronically.
Computer provider order entry (CPOE)
for medication orders.
Drug-allergy and drug-drug interaction
checks.
Implement one clinical decision
support rule relevant to specialty and
track compliance with that rule.
Report ambulatory clinical quality
measures to CMS or the States.
Measure Navigating Cancer
Solves
Over 50% of patients have
demographics recorded as structured X
data.
Over 80% of patients have at least one
entry recorded as structured data, or X
that no problems are known.
Over 80% of patients have at least one
entry recorded as structured data, or
that the patient has no known X
medication allergies.
Over 80% of patients have at least one
entry recorded as structured data, or
that the patient has no known X
medication allergies.
Over 50% of patients age 13 or over
have smoking status recorded as X
structured data.
Over 50% of patients who request an
electronic copy of their health X
information must receive it within 3
business days.
Perform at least one test of EHR's
capacity to electronically exchange key
information. X
Must conduct or review a security risk
analysis, implement security updates as
necessary and correct identified X
security deficiencies.
Clinical summaries provided to patients
for more than 50% of all office visits X
within 3 business days.
Over 50% of patients age 2 and older
have height, weight and blood pressure
recorded as structured data.
Over 40% are transmitted electronically
using certified EHR technology.
Over 30% of patients with at least one
medication in their medication list must
have at least one order through CPOE.
Functionality must be enabled for these
checks for the entire EHR reporting
period.
One rule must be implemented.
For 2011, provide aggregate numerator
and denominator through attestation, for
2012 submit measures electronically.

Menu Set (choose 5 of 10)
Objective
Use EHR technology to identify
patient-specific education resources
and provide them to the patient as
appropriate.
Provide summary of care record for
patients transitioned or referred to
another setting or provider of care.
Send reminders to patients (per patient
preference) for preventative and follow
up care.
Provide patients with timely electronic
access to their health information
including problem list, medication list,
lab results, medication allergies.
Implement drug formulary checks.
Incorporate clinical lab test results into
EHRs as structured data.
Generate lists of patients by specific
conditions to use for reduction of
disparities, quality improvement,
research or outreach.
Perform Medication reconciliation
between care settings.
Submit electronic data to immunization
registries or immunization information
systems.
Submit electronic syndromic
surveillance data to public health
agencies.
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 more,
 contact:
Greg
 Maxfield
VP
 of
 Business
 Development
greg@navigatingcancer.com
615-­‐545-­‐5281
Measure Navigating Cancer
Solves
Over 10% of patients are provided
patient specific education resources.
X
Summary of care record provided for
over 50% of patient transitions or X
referrals.
Over 20% of patients 65 years or older
or 5 years old or younger were sent an X
appropriate reminder.
Within 4 business days of being
updated in the EHR, over 10% of
patients are provided timely electronic X
access to their health information.
Drug formulary check system is enabled
and has access to at least one internal
or external drug formulary for the entire
reporting period.
Over 40% of clinical lab test results are
in either positive/negative or numerical
format and are incorporated into EHRs
as structured data.
Must generate one listing of patients
with a specific condition.
Medication reconciliation must be
performed for more than 50% of
transitions of care.
Must perform at least one test of data
submission to immunization registries
and follow-up submission if the test is
successful (unless none of the registries
can accept electronic submissions).
Must perform at least one test of data
submission to public health agencies
and follow-up submission if the test is
successful (unless none of the public
health agencies can accept electronic
submissions).