Measure 5 Active Medication List

5 or 15 Core

Stage 1

Active Medication List
Objective	Maintain active medication list.
Measure	More than 80 percent of all unique patients seen by the EP have at least one entry (or an indication that the patient is not currently prescribed any medication) recorded as structured data.
Exclusion	No exclusion.

Definition of Terms

Active Medication List - A list of medications that a given patient is currently taking.

Unique Patient - If a patient is seen by an EP more than once during the EHR reporting period, then for purposes of measurement that patient is only counted once in the denominator for the measure. All the measures relying on the term " Unique Patient" relate to what is contained in the patient's medical record. Not all of this information will need to be update or even be needed by the provider at every patient encounter. This is especially true for patients whose encounter frequency is such that they would see the same provider multiple times in the same EHR reporting period.

Attestation Requirements

NUMERATOR / DENOMINATOR

DENOMINATOR: Number of unique patients seen by the EP during the EHR reporting period.
NUMERATOR: Number of patients in the denominator who have a medication (or an indication that the patient is not currently prescribed any medication) recorded as structured data.

The resulting percentage must be more than 80 percent in order for an EP to meet this measure.

Addtional Information

For patients with no active medications, an entry must still be made to the active medication list indicating that there are no active medications.
An EP is not required to update this list at every contact with the patient. The EP can then use his or her clinical judgement to decide when additional updating is required.

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