Electronic Health Records Incentive Program. The federal Medicaid (Medi-Cal) Electronic Health Records (“EHR”) Incentive Program (“EHR Incentive Program”) pursuant to the federal Health Information Technology for Economic Clinical Health (HITECH) Act provides incentive payments to an eligible professional (“EP”) for meaningful use of an EHR system. The terms “EHR Incentive Program,” “EHR,” “EP,” “meaningful use,” “adopt, implement, and upgrade (AIU),” and “incentive payments,” as used in this MOU, have the same meaning as those definitions in Part 495 of title 42 the Code of Federal Regulations. In furtherance of the goals of the EHR Incentive Program, EPs who are employed in classifications represented by PDOCC will do the following:
