On July 6, CMS released the Calendar Year (CY) 2017 Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) proposed rule. This rule includes a number of proposed changes that would affect the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs.
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CMS is requesting feedback from hospital stakeholders and organizations on a draft electronic version of a new EHR measure: Use of Antipsychotics in Older Adults in the Inpatient Hospital Setting. Submit Comments by May 15, 2016.
New Resources Explaining How If you are participating in multiple Medicare quality reporting programs in 2014, there is a new interactive CMS tool that will…
Meaningful Use of Health IT Can Improve Quality Measurement By Dr.Patrick Conway, Chief Medical Officer, Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality Quality…
Changes Affecting eHealth Programs in 2014 The following is correspondence from CMS eHealth News Updates. CMS recently issued a final rule that updates the payment…
CMS eHealth: Provider Resources In March, CMS launched the CMS eHealth web site to consolidate reporting requirements for various health IT initiatives and incentive programs….
Attend the HIE Strategies Summit by Webcast CMS invites you to watch a webcast panel discussion on state health information exchange (HIE) during the 2013…
HIE Governance Framework for Trusted Electronic Health Information Exchange Last month the ONC released the Governance Framwork for Trusted Electronic Health Information Exchange document. The…