ehr onc final certification - Department of Health Care Services
ehr onc final certification - Department of Health Care Services
ehr onc final certification - Department of Health Care Services
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EHR and EHR Module developers to provide more comprehensive capabilities than those<br />
currently required for achieving <strong>certification</strong>.<br />
§170.302(e) - Record and chart vital signs<br />
Meaningful Use<br />
Stage 1<br />
Objective<br />
Record and chart<br />
changes in vital<br />
signs:<br />
• Height<br />
• Weight<br />
• Blood pressure<br />
• Calculate and<br />
display BMI<br />
• Plot and display<br />
growth charts for<br />
children 2-20<br />
years, including<br />
BMI<br />
Meaningful Use<br />
Stage 1 Measure<br />
For more than 50%<br />
<strong>of</strong> all unique<br />
patients age 2 and<br />
over seen by the<br />
EP or admitted to<br />
eligible hospital’s<br />
or CAH’s inpatient<br />
or emergency<br />
department (POS<br />
21 or 23), height,<br />
weight and blood<br />
pressure are<br />
recorded as<br />
structured data<br />
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Certification Criterion<br />
Interim Final Rule Text:<br />
(1)Vital signs. Enable a user to electronically record, modify,<br />
and retrieve a patient’s vital signs including, at a minimum,<br />
the height, weight, blood pressure, temperature, and pulse.<br />
(2)Calculate body mass index. Automatically calculate and<br />
display body mass index (BMI) based on a patient’s height<br />
and weight.<br />
(3) Plot and display growth charts. Plot and electronically<br />
display, upon request, growth charts for patients 2-20 years<br />
old.<br />
Final Rule Text:<br />
§170.302(f)<br />
(1)Vital signs. Enable a user to electronically record, modify,<br />
and retrieve a patient’s vital signs including, at a minimum,<br />
height, weight, and blood pressure.<br />
(2) Unchanged<br />
(3) Unchanged<br />
Comment. One commenter noted that the units <strong>of</strong> measurement should be<br />
specified in the EHR with regards to vital signs. For example that height should be<br />
specified in inches or centimeters.<br />
Response. We do not believe that this level <strong>of</strong> specificity is necessary. We<br />
expect that Complete EHR and EHR Module developers will include the units <strong>of</strong> measure<br />
that their customers believe are necessary to meet their needs, which in many cases will<br />
include those that patients routinely request. We also expect that many Complete EHR<br />
and EHR Module developers will <strong>of</strong>fer both metric units and U.S. units <strong>of</strong> measurement,<br />
as a standard business practice.<br />
Comments. In what appeared to be a reaction to the proposed meaningful use<br />
objective and measure, some commenters requested that we remove BMI as part <strong>of</strong> the