The ONC's goal is to ensure that healthcare physicians and hospitals purchase a system that meets certain standards and criteria to perform these tasks. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduces the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs that offer financial incentives to eligible providers, hospitals, and critical access facilities. To qualify for these benefits, providers, hospitals, and critical access must demonstrate “full and meaningful” use of the EMR (Tripathi, 2012). To be considered a significant user of the EMR, the qualified applicant must use consistent and standardized clinical content across all domains. healthcare systems and environments, use decision support tools such as alerts and reminders, have the ability to collect and store raw data from documentation that can be used for reporting purposes, collect and report data to the State. Data reporting will help improve public health and awareness and provide information sharing between systems (Tripathi,
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