All 10 are required

1. Protect Electronic Health Information Created or Maintained by the Certified EHR Technology
2. Clinical Decision Support
   • Implement Five Clinical Decision Support Rule Relevant to Specialty or High Clinical Priority and Ability to Track Compliance
   • Enable and Implement Drug-Drug and Drug-Allergy Interaction Checks
3. Use Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) for Medication, Laboratory, and Radiology Orders
4. Generate and Transmit Permissible Prescriptions Electronically (eRx)
5. Provide Summary of Care Record for Each Transition of Care or Referral
6. Use Certified EHR technology to Identify Patient-Specific Education Resources and Provide Resources to Patient
7. Perform Medication Reconciliation
8. Provide Patients the Ability to View Online, Download and Transmit Their Health Information Within Four Business Days of the Information Being Available to the Provider (Patient Electronic Access)
9. Use Secure Electronic Messaging to Communicate with Patients on Relevant Health Information
10. Public Health Reporting
    • Immunization Registry
    • Syndromic Surveillance
    • Specialized Registry

For providers originally schedule to perform Stage 1 in 2016, an Alternate Exclusion can be claimed for Objective 3, Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE). A claim can be made to exclude the provider from the laboratory and radiology measures in this objective.