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[EHR Incentive Programs] To meet the meaningful use objective "use certified EHR technology to identify patient-specific resources and provide those resources to the patient" for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, does the certified EHR have to generate the education resources or can the EHR simply alert the provider of available resources?

In the patient-specific education resources objective, education resources or materials do not have to be stored within or generated by the certified EHR. However, the provider should utilize certified EHR technology in a manner where the technology suggests patient-specific educational resources based on the information stored in the certified EHR technology. The provider can make a final decision on whether the education resource is useful and relevant to a specific patient.

For more information about the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program, please visit http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms.

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