Since many customers are working on meeting the Meaningful Criteria, there have been a lot inquiries about how to meet the criteria for the Menu Set Measure Clinical Lab Results.
The questions have been centered around exact verbiage and whether or not labs that are scanned into the patient chart will qualify for Meaningful Use.
The measure reads:
“More than 40 percent of all clinical lab test results ordered by the EP during the EHR reporting period whose results are either in a positive/negative or numerical format are incorporated in certified EHR technology as structured data.”
*Note, the lab results cannot read anything other than “positive” or “negative” (not case sensitive). If the lab result reads “pos” or “neg” or any other variation, it will not properly increase the numerator for this meaningful use measure.
What is considered structured?
Entering lab results that are positive/negative or numerical into a SOAPware Lab Docuplate
Also, in most cases. HL7 lab results are structured if the results are in a positive/negative or numerical format AND the value is a numerical value or states exactly “positive” or “negative” for the results.
Will scanned lab results meet the criteria for Meaningful Use?
Scanning a patient’s lab result into the Labs chart section will not count as a structured lab to meet the meaningful use requirement
Scanning labs into SOAPware will increase the provider’s denominator for this measure (the numerator will not increase unless the lab is incorporated as structured data).
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