I believe it is useless, but my understanding is that meaningful use requires Race, Preferred Language, Barriers (vision, hearing) - all are under miscellaneous info in demographics. Unfortunately MEANINGFUL for the government and useless for me. I just started putting all in with each visit for the new year - I had my staff do all 4,000 race over the last year and then they added the other 2......

Steven
From beautiful southwest Washington State.
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