Becker's Healthcare April 25, 2018
Julie Spitzer

In its latest Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System rule changes announced April 24, CMS renamed its meaningful use program again in an attempt to reflect its emphasis on achieving interoperability.

Meaningful use, which CMS changed to “advancing care information” and rolled out under the Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System, will now be called “promoting interoperability.” To advance data-sharing in healthcare, CMS is requiring that hospitals make patients’ EHRs available to them on the day they leave the hospital starting in 2019.

“We seek to ensure the healthcare system puts patients first,” said Administrator Seema Verma. “Today’s proposed rule demonstrates our commitment to patient access to high-quality care while removing outdated and redundant regulations on...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, MACRA, Payment Models, Technology
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