This information is from
HIS talk. "GE Healthcare. Says Centricity Practice and EMR can?t generate accurate Meaningful Use reports. See link
here to its letter to customers.? It sounds like basic technical stuff, made interesting only because the company admits that there could be problems for clients who have already attested ? the corrected reports may show that they didn?t hit the required thresholds after all . GE says they will provide ?further instruction on how to work with CMS related to any changes related to attestation.? The recommend changes in practice are: (a) choose specific race/ethnicity codes instead of free text and don?t choose ?multi-racial,? ?Hispanic,? or ?other;? (b) use specific options for describing smoking status; and (c) us prescribing to measure patient medication education since issuing handouts that the EMR did not suggest doesn?t count toward Meaningful use. I don?t see any of this as a slam on GEHC other than they are awfully late in identifying the problems, which seem pretty obvious. Let?s hope the triggering event wasn?t an eligible provider getting in trouble with CMS."
