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.