Alaska- EMR Requirements & Incentives | MedicalRecords.com

State: Alaska
Program Start Date: January 2011
Website: hss.state.ak.us/hit/
Contact Email: hitinfo@alaska.gov
Program Information:
Meaningful use criterion for ambulatory care are to use EMR software for at least 80% of all medication orders, laboratory, radiology, imaging, and provider referrals. For inpatient: 10% of medications, laboratory, radiology/imaging, blood bank, physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, rehabilitation therapy, dialysis, provider consultants and discharge/transfers.

Providers must Implement drug-drug, drug-allergy and drug-formulary checks. Furthermore practices need to keep an up-to-date problem list of current and active diagnoses for at least 80% of all of their patients and generate and transmit permissible prescriptions electronically (controlled substances cannot be ePrescribed) for 75% of all ambulatory prescriptions. Also, demographics, including preferred language, insurance type, gender, race, ethnicity, date of birth and date of death/cause in the event of inpatient mortality needs to be recorded for 80% of patients.