The upsides of putting clinical decision support in the cloud

Government Health IT: Long-term care, continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) and other senior care organizations are mostly ineligible to qualify for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS’) Meaningful Use of electronic health records (EHRs) program. These organizations, however, should be aware of a proposed requirement in the third and final stage of the program facing provider organizations in 2017. The proposed “objective,” as it is known under Meaningful Use, relates to eligible providers and hospitals using clinical decision support (CDS) tools during patient encounters.

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