Hospital Public Health Reporting

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) EHR Incentive Program provides incentive payments for eligible hospitals to adopt and meaningfully use certified health IT. Among the requirements to receive an incentive payment, participating hospitals must report on public health measures. These measures include the electronic reporting of data regarding: immunizations, emergency department visits (syndromic surveillance), reportable infectious disease laboratory results, and electronic patient data to specialized registries, like cancert. As of 2015, stage 2 of the EHR Incentive Program requires hospitals to report on three public health measures, when applicable, and modified stage 2 of the program requires hospitals to report on two of the three measures. This dataset includes the percentage of hospitals who reported on these measures in program years, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

美国医疗保险与医疗补助服务中心（Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS）的电子健康记录（EHR）激励计划旨在为符合条件医院采纳并有效使用经认证的健康信息技术提供激励性支付。为获得激励性支付，参与医院必须就公共卫生指标进行报告。这些指标包括有关疫苗接种、急诊部门就诊（症候群监测）、报告性传染病实验室检测结果以及电子患者数据向专业登记册（如cancert）的电子报告。截至2015年，EHR激励计划第二阶段要求医院报告三项公共卫生指标，如适用，而计划的修改版第二阶段则要求医院报告其中两项指标。本数据集包含了在2013年、2014年和2015年计划年份中报告这些指标的医院所占百分比。