MU Stage1 Final Rule - Maintain Active Medication Allergy List

SECTION #  Section 170.302(d)—Maintain Active Medication Allergy List

MU OBJECTIVE Maintain active medication Allergy list

MU STAGE 1 MEASURE More than 80% of all unique patients seen by the EP or admitted to the eligible hospital’s or CAH’s inpatient or emergency department (POS 21 or 23) have at least one entry (or an indication that the patient has no known medication allergies) Recorded as

CERTIFICATION CRITERION Interim Final Rule Text: Maintain active medication Allergy list. Enable a user to electronically Record, modify, and retrieve a patient’s active medication Allergy list as well as medication Allergy history for longitudinal care. Final Rule Text: Unchanged Now §170.302(e).

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TEST CRITERIA # §170.302 (e) http://healthcare.nist.gov/docs/170.302.e_Allergylist_v1.1.pdf

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It is very likely that the current Allergy list will satisfy this criteria but there is also a possibility that it will need to be modified to be coded correctly, i.e., for ePrescribing or for RxNorm compatibility. Also, the VA is standardizing this list and we no longer receive that information except by extracting it from the VA Demos that we receive or potentially from a FOIA copy of VistA. Nancy Anthracite has a FOIA request in for the updates with OI&T and another is pending with VHA.

DEVELOPMENT STATUS Volunteers needed to check to be sure the audit logs for allergies satisfy all of the criteria necessary for auditing and to see if the Historical changes to the allergies such as "Entered in Error" can be retrieved by a user or if a tool needs to be built to do that.

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