Core Objectives and Measures
All core objectives must be met, unless an exception applies. Several objectives do not allow exceptions.
Core Objective: Use computerized physician order entry (CPOE) for medication orders directly entered by any licensed health care professional who can enter orders into the medical record per state, local and professional guidelines.
Measure: More than 30 percent of unique patients with at least one medication in their medication list seen by the EP or admitted to the eligible hospital’s or CAH’s inpatient or emergency department (place of service 21 Inpatient hospital or 23 Emergency room – hospital) have at least one medication order entered using CPOE.
Core Objective: Implement drug/drug and drug/allergy interaction checks.
Measure: The EP/eligible hospital/CAH has enabled this functionality and has access to at least one internal or external formulary for the entire EHR reporting period.
Core Objective: Maintain an up-to-date problem list of current and active diagnoses.
Measure: More than 80 percent of all unique patients seen by the EP or admitted to the eligible hospital’s or CAH’s inpatient or emergency department (POS 21 or 23) have at least one entry, or an indication that no problems are known for the patient recorded as structured data. Read more »