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Electronic Health Information Name Course Instructor Date Meaningful use (MU) criteria and EHR The first stage of the meaningful use criteria is data capture and sharing, where hospitals use of EHRs and IT technology to improve patient and hospital outcomes. The case for data capture and sharing is that it is the basis for implementing the EHR system is that it allows the clinicians to have a meaningful use of the system to set the stage for expansion of the functionalities in future stages. Data standards in health information technology have been suggested to improve the sharing and transfer of patient data among different hospital departments (Yoder-Wise, 2015). An effective EHR system allows the health practitioners to rely on alert systems, problem lists and the progress notes to make decisions about patient intervention. The goal of innovative data sharing is to improve the quality of care, and when the health workers have secure access to patient information any time they require they are well placed to intervene as they are fully informed about patient progress. IT tools that a...