Can you prove it? There is no magic bullet for reporting capabilities to meet meaningful use guidelines.
In order to qualify for meaningful use in 2011, hospitals will only need to use attestation. Hospitals will have to submit data to CMS electronically in 2012. Not all the data elements needed to prove meaningful use are routinely captured. Standardization is a stumbling block to reporting. For medium to large hospitals using a vendor to set up the reporting is an option.
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