AAO Partners with Sophrona for Electronic Health Record Incentive

The American Academy of Ophthalmology and Sophrona Solutions have partnered to provide eye care practices with a  web-based, patient-communication portal. This initiative reportedly could help eye care practices meet the Meaningful Use criteria of the electronic health record incentive program of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2010, which rewards practices for using new medical record technology. One measure of meaningful use requires doctors to show that "more than 10 percent of patients are provided patient-specific education resources" electronically. This measure, while currently optional, could well become a core requirement in the next stage of the EHR incentive program. Read more.