I just read over a summary of the "Meaningful Use" hoops we will have to jump through in order to qualify.
http://healthcarereform.nejm.org?p=3732Like others have said, some criteria are easy and some are not.
Much of the data, for example smoking status of patient, is already in my notes, but not in the required structured format.
I hope that Amazing Charts will phase in these criteria over the next 5 or so releases. It would be nice to go ahead and start working on codifying some of the data. It would also be nice if the program had an option (perhaps a checkbox in administrative options) that could be turned on to force me (or one of my staff members) to answer the smoking question during a patient visit if it is blank.
Lots of work ahead of us.
