Recent Tobacco Related-Webinars

December 14, 2012 - "Meaningful Use and Tobacco Cessation." Click here to view the full screen video. You can view the slides here. A meaningful use fact sheet for Clinicians and Healthcare Systems and a fact sheet for State Tobacco Programs are available for download.

This educational program will provide participants with a high-level overview of Meaningful Use, electronic health records, and tobacco cessation. Information will be provided about Stage 3 Meaningful Use preliminary recommendations, released recently. Organizations will be encouraged to submit public comments.

http://www.prevent.org//data/images/actiontoquit/mu%20and%20tob%20cess%20webinar_final.pdf

More action to Quit webinars are archived at http://www.actiontoquit.org/webinars

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Meaningful Use and Tobacco Control

Public Comment Opportunity: Meaningful Use Stage 3 Draft Recommendations

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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC) has begun to develop Meaningful Use stage 3 recommendations. The Request for Comment (RFC)  includes the following sections: Meaningful Use Objectives and Measures, Quality Measures, and Privacy and Security. All commenters are encouraged to provide opinions regarding feasibility, and more importantly, experiences with how something has been done in order to promote advancement, while also ensuring it is achievable. Instructions for submitting comments can be found in the Federal Register. Click here to submit a comment via regulations.gov. Deadline for comments: January 14, 2013

Wondering what “Meaningful Use” is and why it matters? Federal law provides incentives to certain types of healthcare providers and hospitals for adopting electronic health record (EHR) technology and using it a meaningful way to capture and track health data, such as smoking status and tobacco cessation counseling. Click here for a quick introduction to Meaningful Use, or click here for examples from the field of how Meaningful Use is being implemented, FAQs, and links to other resources.