HealthPOINT

Meaningful Use Stage 1 Core Objective:

Capability to provide electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health agencies

Stage 1 Objective:
§495.6(e)(10)(i) - Capability to submit electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health agencies and actual submission according to applicable law and practice.

Stage 1 Measure:
§495.6(e)(10)(ii) - Performed at least one test of certified EHR technology's capacity to provide electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health agencies and follow-up submission if the test is successful (unless none of the public health agencies to which an EP submits such information has the capacity to receive the information electronically).
§495.6(e)(10)(iii) - Exclusion: An EP who does not collect any reportable syndromic information on their patients during the EHR reporting period or does not submit such information to any public health agency that has the capacity to receive the information electronically.