Have you not found enough information yet? If you haven’t, well this is the place for you on Meaningful Use. I have a hard enough time curating this information for the 
Medical Quack and I can’t imagine how providers and hospitals are doing with all of this today, as it changes frequently too.
I just hope there’s some folks still around and available to take care of the patients between all their study and learning time, and that includes me. Most patients don’t even have a clue about PHRs and so let’s bring in ACO involvement for patients and really confuse them, as most are so busy trying to either figure out what their insurance will or will not pay (hanging out on HealthCare.Gov maybe) or are currently fighting a claim.
Just something kicking around in my head today, I wonder how many at the ONC are using any kind of a personal health record as you never hear anybody talk about it, even the one from the US Surgeon General, is anyone in the electronic medical record area using one? This is what they tell us to do as patients so I’m just curious since they 
never talk about it. How about the CIOs out there too? They are snowed and again we seem oblivious of the stuff taking place outside of medical records that has an impact too, like the payers and that is #1 as nothing happens until a bill gets paid?
CIO Confidence In Meaningful Use Drops-The New Left Curve of Technology That Arrives Daily Contributes-Don’t Burn These Folks Out
Like it or not we are all the in ALGORITHM business big time with more being produced than people have time to use!! It takes time to create them but even more time to learn and use them, that is if they are good algorithms. 
At any rate, here’s a summary page so you can figure out what the algorithms are to meet Meaningful Use and your software vendor can be big help too. Now we have ACO’s on the menu too, well who’s going to take care of the patients while all this gets dumped on to the over loaded plate of most clinicians?
Healthcare Reform Putting Additional Pressure on Public and Medicaid CIOs-The Health IT Bubble Gets Closer As Money And Digital Literacy is Scarce
That word collaboration still seems to be dream lurking somewhere off in the dark blue yonder when it comes to Health IT and only seems to occur when big bucks arrive. Additional links and data are listed at the official ONC website. BD
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) want to help you on your journey to becoming a meaningful user of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology. Here are resources about meaningful use, Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, and the EHR certification process to help guide you:
Meaningful Use and Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs
1) Meaningful Use Overview
https://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/01_Overview.asp2) Path to Payment
https://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/10_PathtoPayment.asp3) PowerPoint Presentation: Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs Final Rule
https://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/Downloads/EHR_Incentive_Program_Agency_Training_v8-20.pdf4) Timeline: Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs
https://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/Downloads/EHRIncentProgtimeline508.pdf5) Being a Meaningful User of Electronic Health Records
http://healthit.hhs.gov/meaningfuluse/provider6) Meaningful Use Specification Sheets
https://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/Downloads/EP-MU-TOC-Core-and-MenuSet-Objectives.pdf7) Flow Chart – Determine Eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs
https://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/downloads/eligibility_flow_chart.pdf
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