Meaningful Use Essentials: Your First 2 Years

Are you preparing for, or actively participating in, your first two years of meaningful use? Are you familiar with program updates that impact Stage 1 and know what's coming in Stage 2? Do you have policies in place to support your strategy? When you're tackling meaningful use and need a quick answer, Meaningful Use Essentials: Your First 2 Years delivers. This handy, concise book provides all of the essential information you need to get through your first years of MU program participation. Ideal for everyone involved in the management and delivery of health care-ranging from physicians to practice administrators, IT leads and CIOs, to healthcare IT vendors, and others-this guide delivers key concepts and pertinent information when they're needed most. This is the definitive resource to reach for when it comes to your first 2 years of meaningful use. It's an easy-to-use reference that outlines required Stage 1 activities, offers policy guidance, breaks down workload reduction opportunities, explains changes to the program, and prepares you for what's to come in Stage 2 Meaningful Use. An ideal on-the-job reference. Praise for the guide "This is very valuable reading for anyone in their first two years of meaningful use-it effectively outlines required Stage 1 activities, offers policy guidance, breaks down EP workload reduction opportunities, and explains how the Stage 2 Final Rules impact Stage 1." David Blumenthal, MD, MPP Former National Coordinator for HIT, ONC, Department of Health and Human Services