How to ensure that your certification for Meaningful Use Stage 3 moves ahead without any glitches. Working with numerous EHRs ensuring a smooth certification process. Full paper available on our website - www.nalashaahealth.com

1. Meaningful
Use Stage 3
Through Nalashaa’s lens

2. There are standards to navigate, tools to decide, workflows to be
planned, security to be ensured and documentation to be main-
tained. In this paper, we go over our learnings across domains and
how to sail smoothly through a MU3 certification.
An MU3 certified product is the first step
towards achieving analytics in healthcare IT if
requisite standards are followed and the
implementation is future-proof.
And how do you get to
a MU3 certified product?
With many successful certifications under our belt, one thing that
stood out in the MU3 journey is the major focus on interoperability.
CMS’s focus on establishing an interoperable nationwide health
information infrastructure was indeed what MU3 intended to
achieve. This was obtained with additional focus on reducing
health IT developer and provider burden alongside. 2015 Edition has
equal weightage to all the key pillars of EHR from Patient engage-
ment to possessing relevant Privacy and Security capabilities.

3. Nalashaa believes in simple solutions
to derive meaningful insights and in
exceeding your expectations. Our
clarity of thought has earned us
many laurels in this fast paced world
where healthcare technology
advancements are rolling out con-
tinuously.
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Conclusion
While we go through the processes & challenges
of getting a MU3 certification for an EHR, that is
not the final goal. A bigger chunk of work is in
helping the providers score better in different
programs like MIPs Individual reporting, MIPs
group reporting, CPC+ etc. But, the initial step is
getting the EHR certified. This is achieved through
Planning (Identify the best order in which mea-
sures need to be developed so we meet the
certification timeline effectively), Designing
(Understand current provider workflow in the
system, so MU3 implementation don’t alter their
workflow, rather easily help them score easily)
and Extendable Execution (Easy extension to
different programs in the near future).
Working backwards from the target reporting
date, i.e. March 2019, providers need to start
using the system at the earliest and capture data
so that they are able to submit the reports to the
respective programs as mandated by CMS. The
EHR vendors are required to provide help docu-
mentations so that the providers are able to
utilize the newly certified system effectively.
The initiation for all these programs is that an EHR
should be MU3 certified.
Vijayalaxmi Kudekar
Healthcare Consultant
Vijaya is a Healthcare Expert at Nalashaa
and has experience in business transfor-
mation, payer-provider integration,
product design & implementation and
healthcare system evaluation & selection.
She has been actively involved in Mean-
ingful Use, PQRS, HHVBP, CPC+, CCM and
MACRA implementations and has exten-
sive exposure to Clinical and Financial
areas of the US healthcare ecosystem.
Keerthi Sudha Chavva
Healthcare Consultant
Keerthi is a subject matter expert at
Nalashaa with hands on experience on
different clinical and billing workflows,
analyzing and embedding different
regulations within regular workflows,
identifying solutions that improves care
and helps providers with a better A/R
outcomes. Also passionate about creat-
ing generalized solutions that indicates
providers from multiple perspectives w.r.t
different regulatory programs.