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moved the CPOE certification criteria to the general certification criteria section. Rather,
we have kept the certification criteria for CPOE separate because we anticipate that these
certification criteria could in the future include different requirements, specific to the
settings for which Complete EHRs and EHR Modules are developed.
Comment. A commenter repeated a question it raised with respect to CPOE for
eligible professionals. The commenter requested that we clarify whether only imaging
and radiology reports were intended to be included in this capability, or, if we intended to
include the images themselves in addition to the imaging reports as part of the
certification criteria. The commenter recommended that we further clarify the criterion
and requested that the DICOM standard be adopted in the initial set of standards, as an
essential step in meeting the CPOE capability.
this issue.
Response. We refer this commenter to our previous response above regarding
§170.306(b) - Record demographics
Meaningful Use
Stage 1
Objective
Record demographics
• preferred language
• gender
• race
• ethnicity
• date of birth
• date and
preliminary cause
of death in the
event of mortality
in the eligible
hospital or CAH
Meaningful Use
Stage 1 Measure
More than 50% of
all unique patients
seen by the EP or
admitted to the
eligible hospital’s
or CAH’s inpatient
or emergency
department (POS
21 or 23) have
demographics
recorded as
structured data
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Certification Criterion
Interim Final Rule Text:
Enable a user to electronically record, modify, and retrieve
patient demographic data including preferred language,
insurance type, gender, race, ethnicity, date of birth, and
date and cause of death in the event of mortality.
Final Rule Text:
§170.306(b)
Record demographics. Enable a user to electronically
record, modify, and retrieve patient demographic data
including preferred language, gender, race, ethnicity, date of
birth, and date and preliminary cause of death in the event
of mortality. Enable race and ethnicity to be recorded in
accordance with the standard specified at §170.207(f).
Many commenters expressed the same comments with respect to this certification
criterion as they did for the record demographics certification criterion for Complete