# Health Information Technology: Revisions to the 2014 Edition Electronic Health Record Certification Criteria; and Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Revisions to the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Interim final rule with comment period. · Published 2012-12-07 · 77 FR 72985
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-29607
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 72985
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 495
- **Publication date:** 2012-12-07
- **HHS docket:** CMS-0046-IFC
## Abstract

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing this interim final rule with comment period to replace the Data Element Catalog (DEC) standard and the Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category III standard adopted in the final rule published on September 4, 2012 in the Federal Register with updated versions of those standards. This interim final rule with comment period also revises the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs by adding an alternative measure for the Stage 2 meaningful use (MU) objective for hospitals to provide structured electronic laboratory results to ambulatory providers, correcting the regulation text for the measures associated with the objective for hospitals to provide patients the ability to view online, download, and transmit information about a hospital admission, and making the case number threshold exemption for clinical quality measure (CQM) reporting applicable for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) beginning with FY 2013. This rule also provides notice of CMS's intention to issue technical corrections to the electronic specifications for CQMs released on October 25, 2012.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/12/07/2012-29607/health-information-technology-revisions-to-the-2014-edition-electronic-health-record-certification)
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