Fierce Healthcare February 12, 2018
In a letter to top officials at CMS and ONC, AAFP says “all HIT utilization measures to be eliminated.”
The nation’s leading association of family physicians is urging federal officials to eliminate health IT utilization measures, pare down documentation guidelines and instead focus their energy eliminating data blocking.
In a letter (PDF) to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma and Donald Rucker, M.D., the top official at the Office of the National Coordinator for the Health IT(ONC), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) outlined ways in which the two agencies can ease the “crushing administrative and regulatory burden” that drives physicians out of practice.
The letter comes on the heels of an announcement...
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