
- 1. Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) of medications.
- 2. Generate and transmit permissible prescriptions electronically (eRx)
- 3. Report a total of 6 ambulatory clinical quality measures to CMS (Medicare EHR Incentive Program) or States (Medicaid EHR Incentive Program)
- 4. Implement one clinical decision support rule
- 5. Provide patients with an electronic copy of their health information, upon request
- 6. Provide clinical summaries for patient for each office visit
- 7. Drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks
- 8. Enable a user to electronically record, modify, and retrieve patient demographic data including preferred language, gender, race, ethnicity, and date of birth
- 9. Maintain an up-to-date problem list of current and active diagnoses based on ICD–9–CM or SNOMED CT®.
- 10. Maintain the patient’s active medication list
- 11. Maintain the patient’s active medication allergy list
- 12. Record and chart changes in vital signs: Height, Weight, Blood pressure, Calculate and display: BMI, Plot and display growth, charts for children 2–20 years, including BMI.
- 13. Record smoking status for patients 13 years old or older
- 14. Capability to exchange key clinical information among providers of care and patient-authorized entities electronically
- 15. Protect electronic health information created or maintained by the certified EHR technology through the implementation of appropriate technical capabilities.