§170.102. Definitions. — Inbound Citations

(i) The 2014 Edition Base EHR definition (as defined at 45 CFR 170.102) and that has been certified to the certification criteria that are necessary to report on applicable objectives and measures specified for the MIPS advancing care information performance category, including the applicable measure calculation certification criterion at 45 CFR 170.314(g)(1) or (2) for all certification criteria that support an objective with a percentage-based measure.

(b) As used in this section, unless otherwise indicated—

Certified electronic health record technology means an electronic health record vendor's product and version as described in 45 CFR 170.102.

Covered professional services means services for which payment is made under, or is based on, the Medicare physician fee schedule which are furnished by an eligible professional.

Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program means the incentive payment program established under section 1848(m) of the Act for the adoption and use of electronic prescribing technology by eligible professionals.

Eligible professional means any of the following healthcare professionals who have prescribing authority:

(4) For payment year 2014, the references to “certified EHR technology” in paragraphs (1) through (3) of this definition are deemed to be references to paragraph (2) of the definition of “Certified EHR Technology” under 45 CFR 170.102 (that is, the definition of “Certified EHR Technology” for FY and CY 2015 and subsequent years).

Children's hospital means a separately certified children's hospital, either freestanding or hospital-within-hospital that—

(i) The 2014 Edition Base EHR definition (as defined at 45 CFR 170.102) and has been certified to the certification criteria that are necessary to be a Meaningful EHR User (as defined in this section), including the applicable measure calculation certification criterion at 45 CFR 170.314(g)(1) or (2) for all certification criteria that support a meaningful use objective with a percentage-based measure.

For the purposes of this part, the following definitions are applicable unless otherwise stated:

For purposes of this part, the terms in this part have the same meanings as 42 CFR 512.110 and 414.1300 unless otherwise stated.

The Secretary adopts the following certification criteria for health IT. Health IT must be able to electronically perform the following capabilities in accordance with applicable standards and implementation specifications adopted in this part. For all criteria in this section, a health IT developer with a Health IT Module certified to any revised certification criterion, as defined in § 170.102, shall update the Health IT Module and shall provide such update to their customers in accordance with the dates identified for each revised certification criterion and for each applicable standard in 45 CFR part 170 subpart B.

(a) A health IT developer with one or more Health IT Module(s) certified to any one or more of the ONC Certification Criteria for Health IT in § 170.315(b), (c)(1) through (3), (e)(1), (f), (g)(7) through (10), (g)(31) through (33), (h), and (j)(20) and (21) must successfully test the real world use of those Health IT Module(s) for interoperability (as defined in 42 U.S.C. 300jj(9) and § 170.102) in the type of setting in which such Health IT Module(s) would be/is marketed.