Cavanaugh Consulting Group

Are Meaningful Use Stage 2 certified EHRs ready for interoperability?

According to findings from a June,2014 study by the SMART C-CDA Collaborative, published in JAMIA,  not yet. Although progress has been made since Stage 1 of meaningful use (MU), any expectation that C-CDA documents could provide complete and consistently structured patient data is premature. Based on the scope of errors and heterogeneity observed, C-CDA documents produced from technologies in Stage 2 of MU will omit key clinical information and often require manual data reconciliation during exchange.