{"id":3775,"date":"2012-11-06T15:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T20:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.healthit.gov\/buzz-blog\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:54:03","slug":"2014-meaningful-objectives-quick-reference-grids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/insights-updates\/2014-meaningful-objectives-quick-reference-grids\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the 2014 Meaningful Use Objectives Quick Reference Grids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almost 2 years ago, ONC <a href=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/\/buzz-blog\/meaningful-use\/meaningful-use-grids-quick-reference-navigation\/\">released meaningful use quick reference grids<\/a> to capture\u2014in one place\u2014how meaningful use Stage 1 objectives and measures correlated with adopted 2011 Edition EHR certification criteria.&nbsp; We\u2019re pleased to announce the 2014 versions of these grids, which are back by popular demand, and posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/promoting-interoperability\/-stage-2\">HealthIT.gov<\/a> (look under the \u201cONC Resources\u201d heading).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2014-meaningful-use-quick-reference-grids\"><strong>2014 Meaningful Use Quick Reference Grids<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This time around, because there are two meaningful use stages to which the single set of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014 Edition EHR certification criteria apply, there are, you guessed it, two quick reference grids:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/meaningfulusetablesseries1_110112.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stage 1 objectives and measures linked to 2014 Edition EHR certification criteria [PDF \u2013 445 KB] <\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/meaningfulusetablesseries2_110112.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stage 2 objectives and measures linked to 2014 Edition EHR certification criteria [PDF \u2013 510 KB]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Similar to the \u201coriginal,\u201d each meaningful use quick reference grid follows the same format:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The first two columns reference meaningful use objectives and measures and serve as the anchor around which the rest of the grid is organized.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The asterisks to the left of the objectives listed indicate whether the meaningful use objective is applicable to eligible professionals (EPs) only, eligible hospitals (EH) and critical access hospitals (CAHs) only, or all of the above.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The core set objectives and measures are listed first followed by the menu set objectives and measures.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The third and forth columns reference the certification criteria that correlate with each meaningful use objective and measure, and the standard(s) and implementation specifications referred to by each certification criterion, where applicable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you find these meaningful use objectives quick reference grids as useful (and hopefully timesaving) as we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-for-more-information\"><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/promoting-interoperability\/\">HealthIT.gov \u2013 Meaningful Use Stage 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 2 years ago, ONC released meaningful use quick reference grids to capture\u2014in one place\u2014how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_selected_menu":"","_show_breadcrumbs":"true","_blog_show_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"archived-category":[705],"featured":[],"topics":[439,425,440],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","archived-category-meaningful-use","topics-historical-programs","topics-hit-policy","topics-meaningful-use-macra"],"acf":{"blog_authors":[{"blog_author_profiles":"193024"},{"blog_author_profiles":"198591"}],"hp_news_hide":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.8.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Announcing the 2014 Meaningful Use Objectives Quick Reference Grids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ONC is proud to announce that the 2014 Meaningful Use Objectives Quick Reference Grids are now available! 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