If I choose the menu item Electronic Notes, does that mean we have to have to use an electronic progress note through Physician Documentation to meet the objective?

  • MU-EH-Stage 2-Objectives

Yes, CMS has recorded this measure as the following: "Enter at least one electronic progress note created, edited and signed by an authorized provider of eligible hospital’s or CAH IP/ED (POS 21 or 23) for more than 30% of unique patients admitted to the hospital/CAH’s IP/ED during the EHR reporting period. The text of the electronic note must be text searchable and may contain drawings and other content." CMS further defines an “electronic note” as an electronic progress note. Therefore, Evident interprets this as a progress note and our statistics will be looking for this specific document to be populated through the Physician Documentation application in order to meet this objective.