Step 5: Achieve Meaningful Use

  1. Assess Your Practice Readiness
  2. Plan Your Approach
  3. Select or Upgrade to a Certified EHR
  4. Conduct Training & Implement an EHR System
  5. Achieve Meaningful Use
  6. Continue Quality Improvement

Menu Measure 3

Patient Lists

Objective:

Generate lists of patients by specific conditions to use for quality improvement, reduction of disparities, research, or outreach.

Measure:

Generate at least one report listing patients of the eligible professional with a specific condition.

CMS Resources

The following resource is available to help you meet the Patient Lists meaningful use menu measure:

Related CMS EHR Incentive Program Frequently Asked Questions

National Learning Consortium Resources

The following resources for creating patient lists are examples of tools that are used in the field today, and that are recommended by "boots-on-the-ground" professionals for use by others who have made the commitment to implement or upgrade to certified EHR systems.

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National Learning Consortium Resources
Resource Name Description Source

Quality Improvement in Medicaid Managed Care Toolkit

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Toolkit that identifies members of racial and ethnic subgroups to measure gaps in care and to explore ways to improve health care quality.

Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. (CHCS)

Related CMS EHR Incentive Program Frequently Asked Questions

For additional questions around meaningful use, visit the CMS EHR Incentive Program Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

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Preparing for
Meaningful Use
Stage 2

Objective:

Generate lists of patients by specific conditions to use for quality improvement, reduction of disparities, research, or outreach

Measure:

Generate at least one report listing patients of the EP with a specific condition

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [PDF - 256 KB]