Meaningful Use Stage 2 Requirements For Hospitals
Progression from meaningful use stage 1 to stage 2 requires eligible professionals eps eligible hospitals ehs and critical access hospitals cahs to have satisfied the core objectives and other meaningful use stage 1 requirements for two years with progression to stage 3 requiring 2 years of meeting meaningful use stage 2 requirements.
Meaningful use stage 2 requirements for hospitals. Stage 2 timeline in the stage 1 meaningful use regulations cms had established a timeline that required providers to progress to stage 2 criteria after two program years under the stage 1 criteria. This original timeline would have required medicare providers who first demonstrated meaningful use in 2011 to meet the stage 2 criteria in 2013. The proposed stage 2 criteria for meaningful use are based on a series of specific objectives each of which is tied to a proposed measure that all eps and hospitals must meet in order to.
Eligible hospitals and cahs must meet or qualify for exclusion to 16 core objectives and 2 of 4 menu objectives.