Evidence based strategies for attesting to Meaningful Use of electronic health records: An integrative review: An integrative review

Meeting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid's "Meaningful Use" objectives can be a challenge for healthcare providers. "Meaningful Use" is a term describing documentation of demographic and health data into an electronic health record (EHR) with the purpose of improving safety and quality of care and reducing health disparities with "meaningful" information. Evidence-based strategies can assist providers with meeting these objectives and integrating the electronic health record into daily work flow. An integrative literature review was performed with empirical studies from 2009 to 2014, focusing on strategies to help healthcare providers attest to Meaningful Use Stages 1 and 2 in the outpatient setting. Articles focusing on hospital settings were excluded. Several evidence-based strategies were identified that can assist healthcare providers (HCPs) with barriers in attesting to Stage 1 and Stage 2 of Meaningful Use. Utilizing a summation of peer reviewed research this paper provides helpful strategies to assist HCPs with Meaningful Use adoption.