1.
Record patient demographics (including gender, race and ethnicity, date of birth, preferred language)
2.
Record vital signs (height, weight, blood pressure, body mass index, and growth charts for children)
3.
Maintain up-to-date problem lists
4.
Maintain active medication lists
5.
Maintain active medication allergy lists
6.
Record smoking status for patients older than 13 years of age
7.
Provide patients with a clinical summary for each office visit within 3 business days
8.
On request, provide patients with an electronic copy of their health information (including test results, problem lists, meds lists, allergies) within 3 business days
9.
Generate electronic prescriptions (does not apply to chiropractors)
10.
Use Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) for medication orders at least 30% of the time. (does not apply to chiropractors)
11.
Implement drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks
12.
Be able to exchange key clinical information among providers by performing at least one test of the EMR’s ability to do this.
13.
Implement one clinical decision support rule, and ability to track compliance with the rule (this is reduced from the previous 5 rules to the final 1 rule)
14.
Implement systems that protect privacy and security of patient data in the EMR, by conducting or reviewing a security risk analysis, and taking corrective step if needed
15.
Report clinical quality measures to CMS or states – for 2011 provide aggregate numerator and denominator through attestation; for 2012, electronically submit measures (this refers to PQRI measures)