Enhancing patient and family engagement through Meaningful Use Stage 3: opportunities and barriers to implementation.

Objectives: The proposed Patient and Family Engagement objectives for Meaningful Use Stage 3 (MU3) seek to provide patients with increased access to, and control over, the content and dissemination of their electronic health record (EHR) information.

Study Design: Implementation study conducted from 2013-2014.

Methods: In this study, 2 leading US health systems attempted to implement 4 draft MU3 objectives within their current EHR system.

Content and functional specifications for a standards-based multidisciplinary rounding tool to maintain continuity across acute and critical care.

Background: Maintaining continuity of care (CoC) in the inpatient setting is dependent on aligning goals and tasks with the plan of care (POC) during multidisciplinary rounds (MDRs). A number of locally developed rounding tools exist, yet there is a lack of standard content and functional specifications for electronic tools to support MDRs within and across settings.

Objective: To identify content and functional requirements for an MDR tool to support CoC.