Population Health Management & Meaningful Use

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Population Health Management
Meaningful Use

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Introduction
The government’s EHR incentive program is designed to transform healthcare delivery and dovetails with other
healthcare reform initiatives. Population health management, the goal of these initiatives, requires advanced forms of
health IT.
Meaningful Use Overview
From the beginning, the requirements for showing Meaningful Use of EHRs have emphasized population health
management. A brief description of the Meaningful Use program is offered.
Population Health Management Components of Meaningful Use
The Meaningful Use stage 2 criteria and proposed stage 3 criteria have numerous components related to population
health management. These are summarized here, along with observations about how automation tools can help
providers show Meaningful Use and manage population health.

Health Information Exchange
The stage 2 and 3 requirements emphasize the need for providers to exchange patient data with one another. Many
EPs and EHs are finding this challenging, because the mechanisms for information exchange are still being developed
in many areas.
Patient-generated Data
Some menu items in the proposed stage 3 criteria relate to patient-generated data, including health risk assessments
and functional status reports. These are controversial but essential to patient engagement and risk management.
Some observers note that telemonitoring and mHealth data should also be considered as patient-generated data.

Conclusion
Notes
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Introduction
The government’s EHR incentive program, which has disbursed nearly $23 billion so far, has greatly increased the
adoption and use of EHRs by doctors and hospitals in the last four years.1
Because of the criteria used to reward
providers for the “meaningful use” of EHRs, the initiative has also promoted the use of that technology to transform
healthcare delivery.
The Meaningful Use program, as it has to come to be known, did not evolve in isolation from other
aspects of healthcare reform. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), for
example, includes a number of provisions that presuppose the widespread adoption of EHRs and
some degree of interoperability among disparate systems.
Among these are the provisions that set up the Medicare shared savings program (MSSP) for
accountable care organizations and the CMS Innovation Center, which is charged with testing,
evaluating and expanding new care delivery models.2
Among the innovation center’s initiatives are a
bundled payment demonstration and CMS’ Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative. In addition, CMS is
involved in multiple pilots of the patient-centered medical home.3
All of these initiatives are oriented to
population health management and require the use of advanced health IT.
The Meaningful Use program, as
it has to come to be known, did
not evolve in isolation from other
aspects of healthcare reform.

Meaningful Use Overview
The HITECH provisions of the 2009 American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA),
which established the Meaningful Use
program, have these objectives:
• Improve quality, safety, efficiency and
reduce health disparities
• Engage patients and their families in their
health care
• Improve care coordination
• Ensure privacy and confidentiality for
personal health information
• Improve population health4
The HITECH legislation did not describe
how these aims were to be achieved. But
it did direct the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) to include electronic
prescribing, health information, and quality
data reporting among the requirements for
receiving EHR incentives.5
The initial Meaningful Use regulations,
published in July 2010, included a framework
for moving toward population health
management (PHM), although some of
the PHM-related requirements were made
optional or were postponed to stages 2 or 3
of Meaningful Use. Examples of PHM-related
criteria in stage 1 include showing the ability
to exchange data with other providers,
generating lists of patients with specific
conditions to use in quality improvement
activities, and sending reminders to patients
for preventive or follow-up care.6
Overall, the stage 1 criteria focus on
electronically capturing health information
in a coded format; using that data to track
key clinical conditions; communicating that
information for purposes of care coordination;
implementing clinical decision support tools;
and reporting clinical quality measures and
public health information.
In stage 2, the requirements for EPs and
hospitals have been expanded “to encourage
the use of health IT for continuous quality
improvement at the point of care and the
exchange of information in the most structured
format possible, such as the electronic
transmission of orders entered using
computerized provider order entry (CPOE)
and the electronic transmission of diagnostic
test results.”
The stage 3 criteria are expected to “focus
on promoting improvements in quality, safety
and efficiency, focusing on decision support
for national high priority conditions, patient
access to self management tools, access to
comprehensive patient data, and improving
population health.”7
Meaningful Use 101
The basics of the Meaningful Use program
are fairly well known at this point. But we will
briefly summarize its essential provisions
to clarify the discussion for those who are
unfamiliar with the program.
Both eligible hospitals and eligible
professionals—who include physicians
and some other types of healthcare
professionals—must show Meaningful
Use of certified EHR technology to receive
incentive payments and avoid penalties later
on. There are two Meaningful Use programs,
one through Medicare and the other through
Medicaid. Providers who participate in the
Medicare program are eligible to receive
nearly $44,000 in total incentive payments,
while nearly $64,000 is available to providers
who qualify for and show Meaningful Use
in the Medicaid program. Providers cannot
receive payments from both programs at the
same time.8
The timelines for the two programs are
different. Under Medicare, EPs have been
allowed to attest to stage 1 of Meaningful
Use since April 2011. They attest each
year to receive incremental payments for
up to five years and avoid later penalties in
the form of lower Medicare payments. The
last year in which providers can attest to
Meaningful Use for the first time is 2014.9
Medicaid providers can receive a first-
year payment if they adopt, implement, or
upgrade EHRs without showing Meaningful
Use. They must begin to demonstrate
Meaningful Use by 2016.10
In the Medicare program, Meaningful Use
stage 2 began in January 2014 and extends
through 2016. Stage 3 will begin in 2017.11
The penalty phase for those who did not
attest to Meaningful Use by 2013 and do
not qualify for a hardship exception starts
in 2015, and the reductions in Medicare
reimbursement grow in subsequent years.12
However, a rule change proposed in May
2014, following a lackluster start to stage
2, would allow providers who are having
difficulty in obtaining new certified EHRs or
attesting to stage 2 objectives to attest to
stage 1 criteria in 2014.13
The requirements for Meaningful Use are divided into core objectives that
providers must satisfy and an optional menu from which they must select
a certain number of objectives.

The requirements for Meaningful Use are
divided into core objectives that providers
must satisfy and an optional menu from
which they must select a certain number of
objectives. In Meaningful Use stage 1, for
example, EPs had 15 core objectives and
had to select five of 10 menu items.14
Certification bodies approved by the Office
of the National Coordinator for Health IT
(ONC) can certify both complete EHRs and
modular components of EHRs as meeting
ONC’s criteria.15
This regulation allows the
certification of various non-traditional EHRs
and supplemental technologies that can
aid physicians in improving quality and
obtaining government incentives.
The certification requirements adopted
in 2011 reflected the Meaningful Use
stage 1 criteria. Under CMS’ current
regulations, starting in 2014, providers
who attest to Meaningful Use stage 1 or
2 must have EHRs that meet ONC’s 2014
edition requirements. The new proposed
rule would allow providers to use certified
EHR technology that meets 2011 or 2014
requirements or a combination of the two,
but only in 2014.16
Upping the ante in stages 2 and 3
The Meaningful Use stage 2 requirements
are considerably stiffer than those of stage 1.
While the total numbers of core and menu
objectives are similar to those in stage 1,
(20 for EPs and 19 for EHs), some of these
goals and the associated measures are far
more difficult to meet.17
All but one of the menu objectives in stage
1 are required items in stage 2. Also, data
fields that had to be completed in stage 1,
such as problem and medication lists, have
been merged into a summary record of care
that includes many other data elements.
EPs have two new core objectives related
to patient engagement, including secure
messaging with patients and ensuring that
5% of patients view, download or transmit
health records that are available online. There
are also new health information exchange
criteria that are discussed below.18
Besides these challenges and new quality
measures, many providers must also
cope with their vendors’ delays in making
available 2014-certified EHRs that they can
use to attest to Meaningful Use. CMS has
created a new hardship exception to help
providers caught in this bind from being
penalized. But the meaning of this exception
is still unclear, and some providers are
being forced to switch EHRs because their
vendors have not gotten their EHRs certified
under the 2014 edition.19
Meanwhile, the Health IT Policy Committee
(HITPC), which advises ONC on Meaningful
Use, recently approved a draft proposal
on the stage 3 criteria. After reviewing the
recommendations, ONC and CMS are
expected to release a proposed rule on
stage 3 in fall 2014.20
The HITPC proposal suggests adoption of
several new menu measures, including a
measure on providing electronic notifications
of significant health care events to a
patient’s care team and a measure requiring
hospitals and health systems to accept
patient-generated data. The four main areas
of emphasis in stage 3, according to the
proposal, will be clinical decision support,
patient engagement, care coordination, and
population health.21
The four main
areas of emphasis
in Meaningful Use
stage 3, according
to the Health IT
Policy Committee
proposal, will be
clinical decision
support, patient
engagement, care
coordination, and
population health.

Population Health Management Components of Meaningful Use
EHRs were not necessarily designed for population health management. They were designed to help physicians
document better, reduce record keeping costs, and justify higher evaluation and management charges. While
EHRs always had some safety and quality features such as drug interaction checkers and health maintenance
alerts, these were very limited. Moreover, the lack of interoperability among disparate EHRs has made it difficult
for providers to exchange information with each other.
The 2014 certification rules have forced vendors to augment their systems in certain ways, and some leading
EHR companies have added minimal population health management features. But ancillary applications can
still make a big difference in the ability of providers to show Meaningful Use and improve the quality of care.
What follows are some Meaningful Use stage 2 requirements and stage 3 proposals that could help EPs
manage population health.22-23
In addition, we note where supplemental applications might help EPs
meet the Meaningful Use criteria. Bear in mind that only certified EHR technology can be used to show
Meaningful Use. Some care management tools such as automated patient messaging applications have
been certified. But even if a supplemental application can’t be used for Meaningful Use, it could help
healthcare organizations improve population health.
Clinical decision support
Meaningful Use stage 2 requires EPs to use five clinical decision support rules, other than drug
interaction alerts; the stage 3 proposal mandates the use of CDS rules in at least four of six National
Quality Strategy areas, including drug interaction checking. Health maintenance alerts in EHRs can
meet the criteria for CDS alerts to improve preventive and chronic care, but they fall short of what’s
needed for population health management.
For example, these alerts often can’t be customized; in some applications, users must build them from
scratch; and they’re usually not linked to automated messaging or population health management
dashboards. Use of an outside registry and protocol-linked software would give providers the tools they need
both for population health management and to help them meet the CDS requirement of Meaningful Use.
Patient access to records
In stage 2, more than 50% of patients seen during the reporting period must be able to view, download
and transmit their health information online within four days after it becomes available to the EP. Five
percent of patients must actually do so.
In the stage 3 proposal, EPs and EHs must give patients the ability to view/download/transmit their
health information within 24 hours after a visit, and test results must be provided online within four days.
The 2014 certification rules have forced vendors to augment their systems in
certain ways, and a few EHR companies have added some population health
features. But ancillary applications can still make a big difference in the ability of
providers to show Meaningful Use and improve the quality of care.

The visit summary requirement in stage 3
remains the same as in stage 2, except that
instructions pertaining to the visit must also
be included.
Patient-generated information
In a proposed stage 3 menu item, EPs
and EHs would have to receive provider-
requested, patient-generated health
information through either secure messaging
or a structured or semi-structured
questionnaire. The latter could include
screening questionnaires, medication
adherence surveys, intake forms, health risk
assessments (HRAs), or functional status
surveys.
Patient-generated health data would
represent a big leap forward for population
health management. Not only would it be
easier to track the health status of patients
who have not recently visited their provider,
but the inclusion of HRAs could also help
organizations measure the health risks of
individuals.
Patient specific education
In stage 2, EPs and EHs must use their
EHRs to identify patient-specific education
resources and provide those resources to
patients. In stage 3, they must also provide
the educational materials in a non-English-
speaking patient’s preferred language, where
they are available.
The selection and provision of these
resources should be automated to save time
and effort. The EHR can use clinical protocols
to identify the correct materials, and patients
can be sent secure messages with links to
the websites where those resources can be
found. Where the EHR doesn’t have this end-
to-end capability, outside applications may
be utilized.
Secure messaging
In stage 2, EPs must use secure electronic
messaging to communicate with at least
5% of patients seen during the reporting
period. That remains the same in the stage
3 proposal, and certified EHRs must also be
able to track responses to patient-generated
messages. This objective is important in
population health management because
it provides a key vehicle for follow-up care
between visits.
Patient reminders
In stages 2 and 3, more than 10% of patients
who have had two or more office visits to
an EP within the previous 24 months must
receive reminders for preventive and followup
care. The EHR must be used to identify the
patients who should receive reminders,
which can be provided online or printed out,
depending on patient preference.
Many patients want to receive these
reminders online, but EHRs are not set up to
send messages automatically. This is where
an automated patient outreach service could
be used to reach patients by secure e-mail,
secure texting, or phone.
Condition-specific lists
Stages 1 and 2 both require the ability
to generate lists of patients by specific
conditions to use for quality improvement,
reduction of disparities, research or
outreach. Certified EHRs can do this, but
this functionality is severely limited for
purposes of population health management.
A robust outside registry can produce far
more specific subgroup lists for use in care
management and disease management.
Transitions of care
When a patient is discharged from a hospital
or emergency department or referred to
a specialist, the EP or EH that transitions
or refers the patient to another provider is
required to provide a summary of care in
both stages 2 and 3. This summary record
must be provided in any form for more than
50% of patients, and electronically for 10% of
patients. In the stage 3 proposal, the types
of transitions are described in more detail,
and organizations are encouraged to include
narrative notes, patient goals, and patient
instructions.
Along with medication reconciliation at
transitions of care, the summary record
requirement helps ensure smooth
handoffs that are essential for good care
coordination and for the ability of medical
homes to function well within their medical
neighborhoods.
Notification of significant events
A new proposed menu requirement in
stage 3 requires eligible hospitals to send
electronic notifications of significant health
events within four hours to members of the
patient’s care team. These events include
arrival at an ED, admission to a hospital,
discharge from an ED or hospital, and death.
For organizations that seek to coordinate
care and manage population health, these
notifications are essential.
Other requirements
The stage 2 requirements and the stage 3
proposal also place a strong emphasis on
transmitting vaccination data to immunization
registries and reporting syndromic
surveillance and reportable lab data to public
health agencies. HITPC considers these
requirements to be integral to population
health management.

Health Information Exchange
A key goal of Meaningful Use stage 2—as well as of the new care delivery models—is to improve the exchange
of patient information between providers who have disparate EHR systems. Besides having to exchange care
summaries at transitions of care, providers must also do this at least once with an EHR that is different from their
own. The stage 3 proposal doesn’t go beyond this, but an overarching goal enunciated in the CMS blueprint
for stage 3 is to provide “access to comprehensive patient data.” HITPC might not have pursued that explicitly
because the technology isn’t mature enough yet, but it still remains the ultimate objective.
Healthcare providers are having difficulty in meeting even the fairly limited requirement for health
information exchange in Meaningful Use stage 2. One reason is that the mechanisms for information
exchange are still being developed in many areas. Despite having received more than half a billion
dollars in federal aid, statewide health information organizations (HIOs) and the regional exchanges that
some of them support have not gained much traction outside of a few states such as Delaware, Indiana,
Michigan and New York. In contrast, private HIOs created by healthcare organizations have grown
dramatically in recent years.24
Nevertheless, a recent survey reveals that more than six in 10 hospitals are now exchanging data with
providers outside of their enterprises—a 51% increase since 2008. While many of those hospitals are
just exchanging lab and radiology reports with outside providers (57% and 58%, respectively), 42%
exchange clinical care summaries, and 37% exchange medication histories.25
Whether healthcare organizations are doing this because it saves money or because of Meaningful
Use stage 2 is beside the point. What’s important is that increased electronic connectivity will help them
manage population health.
Health information organizations are also essential to Population Health Management, because they
allow care teams to look up information on their patients in other providers’ systems and, conversely, to
obtain data on patients they’ve never seen before. The latter ability is especially important in emergency
departments that treat many patients who have not been seen by anyone else in their organizations. In
addition, providers can use HIOs to find out what other providers have done for their patients.26
Providers can also exchange health information by using the Direct secure messaging protocol, which
allows them to send messages and attached documents directly to one another. Direct is becoming
more popular as the health information service providers (HISPs) that convey the messages get
accredited and start to form a national network.27
But Direct only allows data to be “pushed” from one
point to another. HIOs are necessary for data to be “pulled” out of multiple databases.
HIOs can support or enhance many of the functions required in Meaningful Use stage 2, notes a report
from the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS). Most significant from the
viewpoint of Meaningful Use is the ability of HIOs to exchange care summaries at transitions of care.28

Patient-Generated Data
The inclusion of patient-generated data in Meaningful Use stage 3 is controversial—which is one reason why the
draft proposal makes it a menu item. Healthcare providers are not used to considering patient-generated data
beyond the items that patients fill out on a clipboard during the intake process. By and large, physicians and care
teams have been historically cautious of patients correcting or updating their health information. And there are still
many questions about how best to integrate patient-entered data in the EHR.
Yet increasing the participation of patients in their own healthcare is a key element of Meaningful Use
and of population health management. Without patient engagement, it’s doubtful that population health
can be significantly improved.
Some organizations such as Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound are having patients fill out
health risk assessments, and Dartmouth Hitchcock Spine Clinic collects health status information from
patients before each visit. But this is far from a mainstream approach.29
An ONC report on patient-generated health data notes that it can be very important for the new care
delivery systems, including ACOs and patient-centered medical homes. These new delivery models
depend on patient engagement and on care teams working with patients between office visits, the
report notes. “It therefore becomes more critical to value the patient as a source of vital information.”30
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has also weighed in on the
inclusion of patient-generated health data in the MU stage 3 proposal. Besides the use of patient-
entered data, an AHIMA blog post points out, “One growing source of patient-generated data is
from an expanding array of eHealth tools that patients and their families are adopting to aid them in
the management of their health.” These include both remote patient monitoring and mobile health
applications, AHIMA notes.31
Increasing the participation of
patients in their own healthcare is a
key element of Meaningful Use and
of population health management.
Without patient engagement, it’s
doubtful that population health can
be significantly improved.

Conclusion
Meaningful Use is at a crossroads, with some observers expressing doubt that a substantial percentage of
providers will continue on to stages 2 and 3.32-33
Yet, to the extent that doctors and hospitals persevere and that
EHR vendors provide them with the means to do so, Meaningful Use has the potential to create much of the
infrastructure needed for population health management.
Even if they eschew Meaningful Use in the future, healthcare organizations must build this infrastructure to
prepare for value-based reimbursement, which requires them to manage population health. But either way, the
basic ingredients of population health management—patient engagement, care coordination, health information
exchange, and automated care management—will require sophisticated health IT tools that go beyond the EHR
as we know it today.

1. Department of Health and Human Services press release, “Doctors and hospitals’
use of health IT more than doubles since 2012,” May 22, 2013, accessed at
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2. Kaiser Family Foundation, “Summary of the Affordable Care Act,” accessed at
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3. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, “Multi-payer Primary Care Practice Demonstration Fact
Sheet,” accessed at http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Demonstration-Projects/DemoProjectsEvalRpts/
downloads/mapcpdemo_Factsheet.pdf
4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Meaningful Use,” accessed at
http://www.cdc.gov/ehrmeaningfuluse/introduction.html
5. CMS, “Medicare and Medicaid Health Information Technology: Title IV of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act,” Fact Sheet, June 16, 2009, accessed at
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Date=&checkKey=&srchType=1&numDays=3500&srchOpt=0&srchData=&keywordType=All&chkNew
sType=6&intPage=&showAll=&pYear=&year=&desc=&cboOrder=date
6. HHS/CMS, “Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Program; Final Rule,
Federal Register, 42 CFR Parts 412, 413, 422, and 495.
7. HHS (Department of Health and Human Services)/CMS, “Medicare and Medicaid Programs;
Electronic Health Record Program; Proposed Rule,” aka “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking,”
Federal Register, 42 CFR Parts 412, 413, 422 and 495: 1852.
8. CMS, “Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Basics,” accessed at
http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EHRIncentivePrograms/Basics.html
9. Ibid.
10. CMS, “An Introduction to Medicaid EHR Incentive Program for Eligible Professionals,” accessed at
http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EHRIncentivePrograms/Downloads/EHR_
Medicaid_BegGuide_Stage1.pdf
11. Ken Terry, “Feds Extend Deadline for Electronic Health Meaningful Use,” InformationWeek
Healthcare,” Dec. 9, 2013, accessed at http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/policy-and-
regulation/feds-extend-deadline-for-electronic-health-meaningful-use---/d/d-id/1112990
12. “Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Basics”
13. CMS press release, “CMS rule to help providers make use of certified EHR Technology,”
May 20, 2014, accessed at http://www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Press-
releases/2014-Press-releases-items/2014-05-20.html
14. CMS, “An Introduction to Medicare EHR Incentive Program for Eligible Professionals,” accessed at
http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EHRIncentivePrograms/Downloads/EHR_
Medicare_Stg1_BegGuide.pdf
15. HHS (Department of Health and Human Services)/CMS, “Medicare and Medicaid Programs;
Electronic Health Record Program; Final Rule, Federal Register, 42 CFR Parts 412, 413, 422, and 495
16. “CMS rule to help providers make use of certified EHR Technology”
Notes

17. CSC, “Summary of Key Provisions in Final Rule for Stage 2 HITECH Meaningful Use,” Nov. 28, 2012,
accessed at http://assets1.csc.com/health_services/downloads/CSC_Key_Provisions_of_Final_Rule_
for_Stage_2.pdf
18. Ibid.
19. Terry, “CMS Reminds Physicians of Meaningful Use Hardship Exception Deadline,” Medscape
Medical News, May 8, 2014, accessed at http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/824823
20. iHealthBeat, “Review of Q1 Federal Health IT Activity,” April 21, 2014, accessed at
http://www.ihealthbeat.org/insight/2014/review-of-q1-2014-federal-health-it-activity
21. Health IT Policy Committee, Meaningful Use Workgroup, “Stage 3 Draft Recommendations,”
March 11, 2014, accessed at http://www.healthit.gov/FACAS/sites/faca/files/HITPC_MUWG_Stage3_
Recs_2014-03-11_v6_0.pdf
22. Ibid.
23. CMS, “Stage 2 Eligible Professional Meaningful Use Core and Menu Measures,” October 2012,
accessed at http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EHRIncentivePrograms/
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24. Terry, “KLAS: ‘Private’ HIEs leaving ‘public’ HIEs in the dust,” FierceHealthIT, July 8, 2011, accessed
at http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/klas-private-hies-leaving-public-hies-dust/2011-07-08
25. Greg Slabodkin,”HIE Among Hospitals Grows, Still Needs Improvement,” Health Data Management,
May 6, 2014, accessed at http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/HIE-Among-Hospitals-
Needs-Improvement-47997-1.html
26. ONC, “Dr. Ted Wymyslo Discusses How Health Information Exchange Supports Meaningful Use,”
accessed at http://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/dr-ted-wymyslo-discusses-how-health-
information-exchange-supports-meaningful
27. DirectTrust home page, http://www.directtrust.org
28. HIMSS, “HIE and Meaningful Use Stage 2 Matrix,” accessed at
http://www.himss.org/files/HIMSSorg/content/files/MU2_HIE_Matrix_FINAL.pdf
29. Mary Jo Deering, “ONC Issue Brief: Patient-Generated Health Data and Health IT,” Dec. 20, 2013,
accessed at http://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/pghd_brief_final122013.pdf
30. Ibid.
31. William Van Doomik, “Meaingful Usse of Patient-Generated Data in EHRs,” blog of American
Health Information Management Association, accessed at http://library.ahima.org/xpedio/groups/
public/documents/ahima/bok1_050394.hcsp?dDocName=bok1_050394
32. iHealthBeat, “Concern Grows About Doctor Offices Opting Out of Meaningful Use,” Dec. 23, 2013,
accessed at http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2013/12/23/concern-grows-about-doctor-offices-
opting-out-of-meaningful-use
33. Mark Hagland, Dr. Halamka’s Dramatic MU Prediction in Boston,” Healthcare Informatics,
May 13, 2014, accessed at http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/blogs/mark-hagland/
dr-halamka-s-dramatic-mu-prediction-boston

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