Pew’s Comments on Proposed Rules for Meaningful Use Stage 3, 2015 Electronic Health Record Certification Criteria

The Pew Charitable Trusts—in coordination with eight leading health care groups—submitted comments Friday, May 29, on the proposed regulations for Meaningful Use Stage 3 and 2015 Electronic Health Record Certification Criteria.

The comments commend the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for recognizing the importance of documenting in patients’ health records the unique device identifier of implanted devices to improve safety and enhance care quality. The input also offers suggestions for further improvements to the proposed regulations. 

Download the letter.

Additional letters and comments

• AdvaMed
• American Association of Tissue Banks
• American College of Cardiology

• American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)

• American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)

• American Medical Association (AMA)

• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

• American Psychiatric Association (APA)

• Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM)

• athenahealth

• Consumer Partnership for eHealth

• Consumer Purchaser Alliance

• Consumers Union

• Department of Veterans Affairs

• GS1 US
• Geisinger Health System - Joel Meckley
• Geisinger Health System - Deborah Petretich Templeton
• Healthcare Transformation Group - leadership
• Healthcare Transformation Group - workgroup

• Healthwise

• Health Data Consortium 

• Heart Rhythm Society

• Minnesota Department of Health

• PointClickCare

• RTI Surgical

• Terrie Reed

• The Ohio State University

• The Pew Charitable Trusts