Top Ten Meaningful Use Challenges

Meaningful Use for Eligible Professionals: The Top Ten Challenges names the top ten challenges that eligible professional practices must address to meet Stage 1 meaningful use criteria. The authors say there are two major impacts meaningful use is having and will continue to have on eligible professionals. The first being the incentives, which they believe will finally spur widespread adoption of electronic health records in the US and the second being the ongoing commitment required from practices over the next five years to continue to meet all stages.

The top ten are: 1) Capturing data, 2) Establishing effective workflows, 3) Driving provider involvement, 4) Computer-based provider order entry, 5) e-Prescribing, 6) Managing clinical decision support, 7) Implementing patient health information exchange workflows, 8) Formulating a HIE exchange strategy, 9) Privacy and security and 10) Performance measurement support.