Progress and challenge in meeting meaningful use at an integrated delivery network

Intermountain Healthcare hospitals and providers are eligible for approximately $95 million in incentives from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), which requires that hospitals and providers use a certified electronic health record (EHR) in a meaningful way. This paper describes the our progress in readying legacy systems for certification, including measuring, and filling gaps in (EHR) functionality. Also addressed are some of the challenges and successes in meeting meaningful use. Methods for measuring and tracking levels of clinician meaningful use behaviors, and our most recent results impacting meaningful use behaviors in a large integrated delivery network are described. We identified 20 EHR requirements we can certify now, 16 requirements with minor issues to resolve, and 38 requirements which are still in some state of development. We also identified 6 meaningful use workflows that will require significant work to bring all of our hospitals and providers above the measure requirement.