Meaningful Use: Implications for Standardized Languages

Cyndie Lundberg, SNOMED Terminology Solutions (STS), a Division of the College of American Pathologists. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) program includes $40 billion financial incentive payment program for hospitals that implement meaningfully use HIT and EHRs. Stage 1 rules related to meaningful use focus on electronically capturing health information in a standardized format for managing quality, patient safety, patient care outcomes, and billing information using clinical terminologies/classifications: SNOMED Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT®), LOINC, RxNorm, ICD-9-CM, and ICD-10-CM. What’s your organization’s plan? Learn how SNOMED CT can lay the foundation for your organization’s ARRA requirement.