IMPORTANT: If you qualify for Medicaid incentives, you do not need to fulfill Meaningful Use criteria for your first year. You only need to adopt Practice Fusion and our free e-prescribing, then submit "Adopt, Implement or Upgrade" (AIU) documentation to your state Medicaid program.
Email us at aiu@practicefusion.com with your practice ID and username to obtain AIU documentation.
Complete these criteria
Complete the following measures during the corresponding phase of the patient encounter:
- Check-in
- Intake
- Exam
- Post-exam
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Automatic
These measures are automatically fulfilled when you adopt Practice Fusion -
One time
You only need to complete these measures once
About this measure
Enter at least one prescription order for more than 30% of all patients seen with at least one medication recorded.
Exclusion
Providers who write fewer than 100 prescriptions during the EHR reporting period.
Practice Fusion workflow
From the Plan tab of your SOAP note, click Add Medication and find your medication. Be sure to include a SIG code, then click Print Rx, Record Rx or Send e-Rx.
Dashboard tip
Include a SIG code for medications that you are prescribing. If you are not prescribing the medication, write the frequency in the Med comment field instead.
Alternate CMS measure
You may attest to an alternate Core 1 measure for 2013. Visit our Help Forum to learn about this alternate measure.
About this measure
Implement drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks for the entire EHR reporting period.
Exclusion
There are no exclusions for this measure.
Practice Fusion workflow
You automatically meet this measure by using Practice Fusion. You can adjust your alert settings in the Permissions tab of settings section (click the gear icon) but you must leave severe alerts on.
About this measure
Enter at least one diagnosis for more than 80% of all patients seen.
Exclusion
There are no exclusions for this measure.
Practice Fusion workflow
From the Assessment tab of a SOAP note, click Add Diagnosis and search for a diagnosis. Click Save or Save and Prescribe.
Dashboard tip
If the patient has no diagnoses, mark "No Active Diagnoses" in their Dx History to receive credit. Leaving the problem list empty does not satisfy this measure.
About this measure
Send more than 40% of prescriptions electronically.
Exclusion
Providers who write fewer than 100 prescriptions during the EHR reporting period or have no pharmacies that accept e-prescriptions within 10 miles of the practice location at the start of the reporting period.
Practice Fusion workflow
Click Add Medication from the Plan tab of a SOAP note or the New button from the Rx List. Find your medication, select a pharmacy, and click e-Prescribe.
Dashboard tip
Controlled substances, durable medical equipment and compound drugs cannot be e-prescribed and thus are not included in the Dashboard calculations.
About this measure
Enter at least one medication for more than 80% of all patients seen.
Exclusion
There are no exclusions for this measure.
Practice Fusion workflow
If you are prescribing, click Add Medication from the Plan tab of your SOAP note and search for a medication. If you are updating the patient's medication history, go to their Rx List and click New. Find the medication and click Save.
Dashboard tip
If the patient has no medications, mark "No Active Medications" in their Rx List to receive credit. Leaving the medication list empty does not satisfy this measure.
About this measure
Enter at least one drug allergy for more than 80% of all patients seen.
Exclusion
There are no exclusions for this measure.
Practice Fusion workflow
In the Subjective tab of a SOAP note, click on Add Allergy and search for a drug allergy. If the patient is allergic to a drug group, select any individual drug from that group.
Dashboard tip
If the patient has no drug allergies, mark the "No Known Drug Allergies" box on their Allergies list to receive credit. Food allergies, environmental allergies or any allergies entered in the PMH list does not satisfy this measure.
About this measure
Record the following demographic information for more than 50% of all patients seen:
- Date of birth
- Gender
- Race
- Ethnicity
- Preferred language
Exclusion
There are no exclusions for this measure.
Practice Fusion workflow
Enter all patient demographics in the Basic section of their chart. You can choose multiple races if applicable to the patient.
Dashboard tip
Indicating that ethnicity is 'Not specified' does not satisfy this measure.
About this measure
Record the following vitals for more than 50% of all patients 2 years and older:
- Height
- Weight
- Blood pressure
Practice Fusion automatically calculates BMI and growth charts.
Exclusion
Providers who see no patients two years or older or providers for whom height, weight, and blood pressure have no relevance to their scope of practice.
Practice Fusion workflow
Click Start a chart note from the patient chart, choose 'SOAP note' and enter their vitals on the following screen.
Alternate CMS measure
You may attest to an alternate Core 8 measure for 2013. Visit our Help Forum to learn about this alternate measure.
About this measure
Record smoking status for more than 50% of all patients 13 years of age and older.
Exclusion
Providers who see no patients 13 years or older.
Practice Fusion workflow
From the Lifestyle section of a patient chart, click New and select the patient's current smoking status with an effective date. Enter multiple statuses to reflect a change in smoking habits over time.
Dashboard tip
Even a status of 'Unknown' will give you Dashboard credit as long as it is recorded.
About this measure
This measure is no longer included in the core criteria. You still must report clinical quality measures (CQMs) to CMS during attestation as the last step using the ONC Stage 1 – CQM Report in the Reports section of your EHR. Learn more about CQMs »
Practice Fusion Workflow
Run the ONC Stage 1 – CQM Report in the Reports section of your EHR when your reporting period is finished and manually submit the results to CMS during attestation.
About this measure
Implement one clinical decision support (CDS) rule and have this functionality enabled for the entire EHR reporting period.
Exclusion
There are no exclusions for this measure.
Practice Fusion workflow
You automatically meet this measure by using Practice Fusion. By default, Practice Fusion enables a blood pressure CDS rule for patients diagnosed with hypertension.
About this measure
Provide more than 50% of all patients PHR access within three business days, upon request.
Exclusion
Providers who have no requests from patients for an electronic copy of patient health information during the EHR reporting period.
Practice Fusion workflow
Enroll patients in the PHR from the Patient Actions drop-down menu in their chart. Make sure to grant your staff rights to give PHR access.
Dashboard tip
Be sure to enroll all patients who request an electronic copy of their health information.
About this measure
Provide a clinical summary to patients for more than 50% of all office visits within three business days.
Exclusion
Providers who have no office visits during the EHR reporting period.
Practice Fusion workflow
Enroll patients in the PHR under the Patient Actions drop-down menu in their chart. Make sure to grant your staff rights to give PHR access.
Dashboard tip
You can also print the patient chart (click on Summary) or the SOAP note. If you print the patient chart from the Patient Actions drop-down, you must select the checkboxes for Diagnosis History, Medication List, Allergies, Immunization History and any relevant lab results in the chart prior to printing.
About this measure
This measure is no longer required for Meaningful Use.
About this measure
Conduct a security risk analysis and implement security updates as necessary.
Exclusion
There are no exclusions for this measure.
Practice Fusion workflow
Download the Privacy & Security Audit and follow the instructions. Be sure to save these documents and any other documents related to practice security (e.g. receipts for new security software) for your records.
Dashboard tip
Manually indicate that you have completed the privacy and security audit, then click Save to receive credit for this measure.