A Journey through Meaningful Use at a Large Academic Medical Center: Lessons of Leadership, Administration, and Technical Implementation

Abstract

This is an article about a journey into meaningful use in a large academic medical center setting for not only stage-1 compliance and the incentives consequent on compliance but an effort to avoid penalties levied for non compliance. The authors not only discuss their journey but clearly identify and document the lessons learned so others following the same path could benefit from this effort and not re-invent the wheel.

Background

Meaningful Use according to the authors involves not only implementing an EMR system but more importantly meaningfully using the system for care coordination and patient engagement. As broad as the term "Meaningful Use" is, it is not without an objective definition and that hs been provided by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (HIT). The authors