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The New and Revised Standards of meaningful use stage 2 requirements were recently released. The core items of this legislation are as follows:   Patients are provided online access to their health information through a web portal on 50% of the occasions. Further 10% unique patients actually view, download or transmit that data to a third party. Successful on going submission of electronic immunization data from certified Electronic Health Record technology to an immunization registered is now a requirement. Previously on stage 1, only a test was acceptable. Practitioners are supposed to provide a summary of care record for 65% of transitions of care during referrals or transfer of patient care settings. They are also required to electronically transmit 10% across Electronic Health Records vendor types and organizations. This measure is a combination of Stage 1 core items (problem list, active medication list and active ...

Health care givers who use these systems therefore enjoy the added advantage of the inclusion of the PHR. This makes is easy for them to fulfil the meaningful use requirements. The health care givers who do not however use the above mentioned EMR system solutions need not worry. There are several PHR solutions that are offered online and for free. Most of these solutions have the interoperability feature which most EMR system solutions lack. For instance, Epic Lucy PHR which does not rely on the Epic platform in order to run and can be accessed online. Another example is the Microsoft HealthVault which can be used to access health information even in the absence of an EMR system. Health care givers have no excuse therefore when it comes to implementing the meaningful use requirement of giving patients access to their health records upon request. There are however some obstacles with the PHR; in the section where patients can enter their own data into a free-standing personal hea...