Patient Engagement December 22, 2016
Sara Heath

Eligible hospitals should focus on patient engagement requirements for meaningful use, while clinicians should focus on MACRA provisions.

As 2017 approaches, healthcare professionals should prepare for new sets of reporting requirements, including patient engagement provisions under meaningful use for hospitals and MACRA for eligible clinicians.

With reimbursement rates hinging on successful participation in these programs, hospitals and clinicians alike would benefit from understanding the patient-centered requirements included in both programs.

In addition to meaningful use and MACRA, CMS has recently established an additional set of guidelines and programs to improve patient and family engagement. While these benchmarks may not influence federal incentive payments, they could be key for delivering high-quality, patient-centered healthcare.

Below, PatientEngagementHIT.com reviews the 2017 patient engagement requirements...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HHS, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, MACRA, Market Research, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Telehealth, Value Based
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