Meaningful Use: Stage 2 Public Health Readiness

Meaningful Use is a set of standards defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that governs the use of electronic health records and allows eligible providers and hospitals to earn inventive payments by meeting specific criteria. Requirements for meaningful use involve public health reporting criteria. As meaningful use takes a three staged approach, in stage 2 of meaningful use, the following public health objectives apply:

Successful ongoing submission of electronic immunization data to an immunization registry or immunization information system (mandatory for eligible hospitals and professionals)
Successful ongoing submission of electronic syndromic surveillance data to a public health agency (mandatory for eligible hospitals/optional for eligible professionals)
Successful ongoing submission of electronic reportable laboratory results to a public health agency (mandatory for eligible hospitals)
Successful ongoing submission of cancer cases to a cancer registry (optional for eligible professionals)
Successful ongoing submission of specific case information to a specialized registry other than a cancer registry (optional for eligible professionals)

State Public Health Agencies (PHAs) are strongly encouraged to support stage 2 public health objectives. Through meaningful use, public health will be able to respond faster and more effectively to public health events. To help in these efforts, PHAs are publicizing what stage 2 objectives they will support and are creating websites to help share that information. APHL has comprised a list of state specific PHAs stage 2 PH reporting information from those sites. These websites along with their links help eligible professionals and hospitals and other interested entities navigate and find information on state specific public health readiness to receive electronic data.

For state PHA’s, if you have any feedback or any of the information is incomplete or inaccurate, please email Vanessa Holley, Senior Specialist, Informatics, at vanessa.holley@aphl.org

MUPHA Readiness Sites

Public Health Agency	IZ-EH	IZ-EP	SS-EH	SS-EP	RLR	CAN	SPRE	Readiness Doc	Notes
	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Alabama Department of Public Health	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-	PDF - Alabama Department of Public Health Declaration of Readiness
Alaska Department of Health and Social Services	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	-		Will be participating in the national Biosense project for syndormic surveillance
Arizona Department of Health Services	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Arkansas Department of Health	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
California Department of Public Health	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		Refer to LHJ MU Capacity Matrix to determine the MU requirement eligible professionals and hospitals want to fulfill http://hie.cdph.ca.gov/lhj-matrix.html
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	-		CDPHE will not be supporting SS. However, Denver Public Health and Tri-County Health Department are supporting SS for facilities in their jurisdictions
Connecticut Department of Public Health	No	No	No	No	No	No	-	http://www.ct.gov/dph/lib/dph/hite/meaningfuluse/letterhead_final_commissioner_dph_dss.pdf	will accept MUST (meaningful use state testing) portal testing certificates for MU Stage 1 and 2; not ready to continuously accept electronic immunization data submissions guide for the ELR system will be published July 2015 ready to accept data from cancer cases in 2016 an exclusion will still apply for MU Stage 1 and 2 for ELR and syndromic surveillance data and for Stage 2 reportable cancer cases
DC Department of Health	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	-
Delaware Health and Social Services	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	-
Florida Department of Health	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No		Only accepting EP data from urgent care centers
Georgia Department of Public Health	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	-		EPs for syndromic surveillance can receive an exemption
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	-
Illinois Department of Public Health	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No		will not accept syndromic surveillance data from dentists, podiatrists, optometrists, and chiropractors
Indiana State Department of Health	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	-
Iowa Department of Public Health	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	-		The cancer registry is working with IDPH to move forward with this objective. A timeframe has not yet been determined
Kansas Department of Health and Environment	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Kentucky Department of Public Health	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Maine Department of Health and Human Services	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-		Requesting information regarding interest in the following specialized registries: Healthy Weight, Chronic Disease
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Readiness Document
Massachusetts Department of Health	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Will be implementing electronic infectious disease case report data into a specialized registry
Michigan Department of Community Health	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Public Health Availability Statement	not accepting data from the following provider types: dentists, dental surgeons, podiatrists, optometrists/ophthalmologists, chiropractors and certified nurse mid-wives
Minnesota Department of Health	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Mississippi State Department of Health	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-	-		SS not accepted for all eligible professionals. The cancer registry is under development.
Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	-		MU exemptions for SS eligible professionals
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	-	-
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	http://www.dhhs.nh.gov/dphs/bphsi/documents/muletterupdate-11-14.pdf
New Jersey Department of Health	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
New Mexico Department of Health	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No		The cancer registry resides at the University of New Mexico

LEGEND

IZ-EH Immunizations for Eligible Hospitals

IZ-EP Immunizations for Eligible Providers

SS-EH Syndromic Surveillance for Eligible Hospitals

SS-EP Syndromic Surveillance for Eligible Providers

RLR Reportable Laboratory Results

CAN Cancer Registry

SPRE Specialized Registry

This is not an official version of the data. Jurisdictional websites and points of contact for each jurisdiction are the only source of the official or verified data. APHL is not liable for discrepancies, errors or omissions, if any, found in the data included on this site. This information is neither associated with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) repository related to determining whether a public health agency has the capacity to receive information nor is it related to the CMS FAQ that provides guidance for providers on how to contact their state or local public health agency for public health related meaningful use (MU) objectives.

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Meaningful Use: Stage 2 Public Health Readiness

MUPHA Readiness Sites