Objective 6: Coordination of Care Through Patient Engagement
This is an article in a series of articles describing each objective to meet the requirements for the 2019 Medicaid Promoting Interoperability Objectives. You can access the other objectives by clicking the corresponding links below.
Objective 5: Patient Electronic Access To Health Information
Objective 6: Coordination Of Care Through Patient Engagement <---
Objective 8: Public Health And Clinical Data Registry Reporting
Objective: Use CEHRT to engage with patients or their authorized representatives about the patient's care.
Measure 1: During the EHR reporting period, more than 10 percent of all unique patients (or their authorized representatives) seen by the EP or discharged from the eligible hospital or CAH inpatient or emergency department (POS 21 or 23) actively engage with the electronic health record made accessible by the provider and either:
(1) View, download or transmit to a third party their health information; or
(2) access their health information through the use of an API that can be used by applications chosen by the patient and configured to the API in the provider's CEHRT; or
(3) a combination of (1) and (2).
Denominator: Number of unique patients seen by the EP, or the number of unique patients discharged from an eligible hospital or CAH inpatient or emergency department (POS 21 or 23) during the EHR reporting period.
Numerator: The number of unique patients (or their authorized representatives) in the denominator who have viewed online, downloaded, or transmitted to a third party the patient's health information during the EHR reporting period and the number of unique patients (or their authorized representatives) in the denominator who have accessed their health information through the use of an API during the EHR reporting period.
Threshold for 2017: The resulting percentage must be more than 5 percent.
Threshold for 2018 and Subsequent Years: The resulting percentage must be more than 10 percent.
Measure 2: For more than 25 percent of all unique patients seen by the EP or discharged from the eligible hospital or CAH inpatient or emergency department (POS 21 or 23) during the EHR reporting period, a secure message was sent using the electronic messaging function of CEHRT to the patient (or the patient-authorized representative), or in response to a secure message sent by the patient or their authorized representative. For an EHR reporting period in 2017, the threshold for this measure is 5 percent rather than 25 percent.
Denominator: Number of unique patients seen by the EP or the number of unique patients discharged from an eligible hospital or CAH inpatient or emergency department (POS 21 or 23) during the EHR reporting period.
Numerator: The number of patients in the denominator for whom a secure electronic message is sent to the patient (or patient-authorized representative) or in response to a secure message sent by the patient (or patient-authorized representative), during the EHR reporting period.
Threshold in 2017: The resulting percentage must be more than 5 percent in order for an EP, eligible hospital, or CAH to meet this measure
Threshold in 2018 and Subsequent Years: The resulting percentage must be more than 25 percent in order for an EP, eligible hospital, or CAH to meet this measure.
Measure 3: Patient generated health data or data from a nonclinical setting is incorporated into the CEHRT for more than 5 percent of all unique patients seen by the EP or discharged from the eligible hospital or CAH inpatient or emergency department (POS 21 or 23) during the EHR reporting period.
Denominator: Number of unique patients seen by the EP or the number of unique patients discharged from an eligible hospital or CAH inpatient or emergency department (POS 21 or 23) during the EHR reporting period.
Numerator: The number of patients in the denominator for whom data from non-clinical settings, which may include patient-generated health data, is captured through the CEHRT into the patient record during the EHR reporting period.
Threshold: The resulting percentage must be more than 5 percent in order for an EP, eligible hospital, or CAH to meet this measure.
Exclusions: A provider may exclude the measures if one of the following apply:
An EP may exclude from the measure if they have no office visits during the EHR reporting period.
Any EP that conducts 50 percent or more of his or her patient encounters in a county that does not have 50 percent or more of its housing units with 4Mbps broadband availability according to the latest information available from the FCC on the first day of the EHR reporting period may exclude the measure.
Any eligible hospital or CAH will be excluded from the measure if it is located in a county that does not have 50 percent or more of their housing units with 4Mbps broadband availability according to the latest information available from the FCC at the start of the EHR reporting period.
We are adopting Objective 6: Coordination of Care Through Patient Engagement at § 495.24(d)(6)(i) for EPs and § 495.24(d)(6)(ii) for eligible hospitals and CAHs. We further specify that in order to meet this objective and measures, an EP, eligible hospital, or CAH must use the capabilities and standards of as defined for as defined CEHRT at § 495.4. We direct readers to section II.B.3 of this final rule with comment period for a discussion of the definition of CEHRT and a table referencing the capabilities and standards that must be used for each measure.
To meet Measure 1: This is met with the View, Download, Transmit report. This report must be at 10% or higher to pass. (5% or higher to pass in 2020.)
In order for a patient to appear in the numerator they must go and View or Download their Health Record from the office's Patient Portal.
To meet Measure 2: This is met with Secure Messaging. This report must be at 25% or higher to pass. (5% or higher to pass in 2020.)
To meet Measure 3: This is met in Orders. You can check your progress on this in Reports > Measure Calculation > Patient Generated Health Data. This report needs to be at 5% or higher to pass. (Same in 2020)