ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eclipsys Corporation (NASDAQ:ECLP), The Outcomes Company®, today announced its response to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’(CMS) final rule on ‘meaningful use’ of an electronic health records (EHR). Countering opinions describing any criteria to include Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) in 2011 as “too ambitious,” Eclipsys applauds CMS for coming forward to add electronic medication order entry as a requirement for achieving “meaningful use.” According to the final rule regulation, at least 30 percent of patients with a medication order must have that order entered through a CPOE solution. Moreover, in Stage 2 of ‘meaningful use,’ scheduled for 2013, the CPOE medication order requirement doubles to 60 percent. A sole focus on CPOE related to patient medication is a significant change from the interim final rule CPOE requirement of 10 percent of orders, regardless of order type.
