Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology is defined by the New Jersey Medicaid Promoting Interoperabiliy Program as one or more of the following:
A complete EHR that, if used appropriately, will permit a hospital to comply with all of the objectives and measures of all stages of meaningful use as defined by the federal government.
An EHR module is defined as any EHR technology that, if used appropriately, would permit a hospital to comply with at least one of the objectives and measures of meaningful use. An e-prescribing application is one example of an EHR module that could meet several of the meaningful use objectives. E-prescribing integrated with other modules (e.g., specific registries and a health data exchange module to provide patients with clinical summaries) might meet all of the criteria of meaningful use.
Definitions and additional details for the 2016 Program Requirements for meaningful use objectives and measures can be found here.
Note: open-source, home-grown or self-developed software programs are allowable EHR technologies provided they are certified.