CMS Celebrates National Health IT Week
CMS Events this Week The 8th Annual National Health IT Week this year will be September 16–20, 2013. The week raises awareness of Health Information Technology’s power…
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AHIMA Calls for Set of National Guidelines for Visit Code Reporting
Comments on CMS’ Proposed Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs Implementation of national guidelines for reporting hospital outpatient clinic visits would lead to standardized and…
Upcoming Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Program Milestones
October 15, 2013 PQRS Program Milestones Providers considered eligible and able to participate in PQRS may be subject to a payment adjustment beginning in 2015….
eHealth Program Milestones for 2014
By Robert Tagalicod Director, Office of E-Health Standards and Services, CMS 2014 will be a big year for CMS eHealth programs— there are key deadlines for…
Submitting CQMs in 2013 for EHR Incentive Programs
Learn More About Submitting Quality Data for the EHR Incentive Programs for 2013 The following is correspondence from CMS. Providers must report clinical quality measures…
Mostashari, CMS Lay Out HIE Long View
By Anthony Brino, Government Health IT As Farzad Mostashari, MD, prepares to leave the ONC, the office and its parent agency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,…
Accelerating Health Information Exchange
HHS Releases New Strategy for Accelerating Health Information Exchange Back in March the HHS requested input on a series of potential policy and programmatic changes…
ONC Goes to Washington
ONC Testifies to the Senate and Reports to Congress Well I know, the ONC is already in Washington but they have been spending some time…
Patient Engagement Resources
Patient Engagement: What’s your Plan? We have been highlighting patient engagement this week in our daily posts and on our radio station. Stage 2 of…