EHRs Become A Stronger Research Tool Under Proposed Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule
Executive Summary
Use of electronic health records to report data to disease registries, for both cancer and non-cancer conditions, becomes an optional objective for providers to demonstrate “meaningful use” of EHRs under CMS’ proposed stage 2 requirements. An objective to identify patients for potential research opportunities also carries over to the stage 2 proposal.
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