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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Comment. A commenter recommended including the term “modify” in the<br />
<strong>certification</strong> criterion.<br />
Response. We agree, and consistent with our other <strong>certification</strong> criteria that<br />
include the term “modify,” we have added this term.<br />
§170.302(n) - Public health surveillance<br />
Meaningful Use<br />
Stage 1<br />
Objective<br />
Capability to<br />
submit electronic<br />
syndromic<br />
surveillance data to<br />
public health<br />
agencies and actual<br />
submission in<br />
accordance with<br />
applicable law and<br />
practice<br />
Meaningful Use Stage 1<br />
Measure<br />
Performed at least one test <strong>of</strong><br />
certified EHR technology's<br />
capacity to provide electronic<br />
syndromic surveillance data to<br />
public health agencies and<br />
follow-up submission if the test<br />
is successful (unless none <strong>of</strong> the<br />
public health agencies to which<br />
an EP, eligible hospital or CAH<br />
submits such information have<br />
the capacity to receive the<br />
information electronically)<br />
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Certification Criterion<br />
Interim Final Rule Text:<br />
Public health surveillance. Electronically record,<br />
retrieve, and transmit syndrome-based public<br />
health surveillance information to public health<br />
agencies in accordance with one <strong>of</strong> the standards<br />
specified in §170.205(g).<br />
Final Rule Text:<br />
§170.302(l)<br />
Public health surveillance. Electronically record,<br />
modify, retrieve, and submit syndrome-based<br />
public health surveillance information in<br />
accordance with the standard (and applicable<br />
implementation specifications) specified in<br />
§170.205(d)(1) or §170.205(d)(2).<br />
Comments. A couple <strong>of</strong> commenters supported the adoption <strong>of</strong> <strong>certification</strong><br />
criteria related to public health reporting. One commenter believed that this <strong>certification</strong><br />
criterion should be implemented as adopted.<br />
Response. We appreciate commenters’ support <strong>of</strong> this <strong>certification</strong> criterion.<br />
Comment. One commenter recommended that we defer any vocabulary standard<br />
for public health reporting and surveillance until a later date. Another commenter<br />
expressed c<strong>onc</strong>ern that we would adopt as a standard, “according to applicable public<br />
health agency requirements,” because they thought it could be problematic for hospital<br />
systems with facilities in two or more states, as their EHR technology would have to meet<br />
whatever standards each state elected to use.