CMS wants to remind Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program participants that the EHR reporting period for new and returning participants is a minimum of any continuous, self-selected, 90-day period.
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By Kathryn Marchesini, Jeff Smith, & Jordan Everson – When talking about artificial intelligence today, people are usually referring to predictive models—often driven by machine learning techniques—that “learn” from historic data and make predictions, recommendations, or classifications (outputs) which inform or drive decision making.
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including the USCDI v4 Submission Period, closes on 9/30, a new Data Brief that found fewer than 1 in 5 primary care physicians electronically exchanged patient health information with public health agencies & more!
By Ryan Argentieri & Jen Layden – The ONC and CDC are working together to strengthen Public Health Systems, tools, and practices that keep us safe.
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
CMS announced that the Medicare Shared Savings Program, through its work with Accountable Care Organizations – groups of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers — saved Medicare money while continuing to deliver high-quality care.
By Ryan Argentieri, Matthew Rahn, Jasmine Agostino, & Alek Sripipatana – A few months ago, the ONC launched the USCDI+ initiative to support the identification and establishment of domain or program-specific datasets that will operate as extensions to the existing United States Core Data for Interoperability.
By Robert Otto Valdez PhD MHSA – Too many Americans have experienced the health-related consequences and anxieties that follow a diagnostic error – a diagnosis that is either delayed, poorly communicated, or just plain wrong.
By Avinash Shanbhag & Rob Anthony – The moments we’ve all been waiting for since 2016 are fast approaching: the 21st Century Cures Act infrastructure is coming into place in 2022! The Cures Act laid out a vision for a rich health IT ecosystem of standards-based APIs and nationwide health information networks to securely…