CHIME: Meaningful use update
SAN ANTONIO—Spending on meaningful use efforts equals about $100 from every American, said Travis Broome, MPH, MBA, health insurance specialist for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). He discussed the meaningful use timeline during a session at CHIME11, the Fall CIO Forum, Oct. 27. There is a lot of belief, he said, that with that spending, “we really will end up with improved outcomes.”
Further meaningful use requirements are “coming whether we’re ready or not,” Broome said. “Good decisions depend on the information we have, and that information is really only coming from one place: health IT.”
A recommendation to postpone Stage 2 meaningful use implementation until 2014 exists and the formal proposal will go to CMS in January, he said.
To date, all 302 hospitals that have attested were successful, Broome said, which is about 10 percent of facilities in the U.S. Approximately $870 million has been spent on the effort and “we’re closing in on $1 billion.”
Of those that have attested, more than 90 percent are meeting recording objectives, 88 percent have implemented computerized physician order entry (CPOE), and 95 percent are incorporating lab results. Broome pointed out that these are foundational elements and the numbers need to be high in order to get good numbers downstream.
He cautioned that some of the menu objectives of Stage 1 will probably become core objectives in Stage 2 and the “deferral option could disappear.”
The most recent quarterly survey conducted by CHIME showed that 25 percent of those facilities that have attested have qualified for funding and 13 percent of those have received that funding. Broome said that these numbers were anticipated as these facilities are the early adopters.
Further meaningful use requirements are “coming whether we’re ready or not,” Broome said. “Good decisions depend on the information we have, and that information is really only coming from one place: health IT.”
A recommendation to postpone Stage 2 meaningful use implementation until 2014 exists and the formal proposal will go to CMS in January, he said.
To date, all 302 hospitals that have attested were successful, Broome said, which is about 10 percent of facilities in the U.S. Approximately $870 million has been spent on the effort and “we’re closing in on $1 billion.”
Of those that have attested, more than 90 percent are meeting recording objectives, 88 percent have implemented computerized physician order entry (CPOE), and 95 percent are incorporating lab results. Broome pointed out that these are foundational elements and the numbers need to be high in order to get good numbers downstream.
He cautioned that some of the menu objectives of Stage 1 will probably become core objectives in Stage 2 and the “deferral option could disappear.”
The most recent quarterly survey conducted by CHIME showed that 25 percent of those facilities that have attested have qualified for funding and 13 percent of those have received that funding. Broome said that these numbers were anticipated as these facilities are the early adopters.
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