Healthcare DIVE August 7, 2018
- CMS is committed to requiring providers to use 2015 Edition certified EHRs in 2019 because that version opens APIs, a key ingredient in the effort to achieve full interoperability in healthcare, agency Administrator Seema Verma told industry on Monday.
- Speaking at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Interoperability Forum in Washington, D.C., Verma said too many doctors are still recording notes on paper and faxing patient records to other providers. She challenged health IT developers to “help us make every doctor’s office in America a fax free zone by 2020!”
- Separately, more than a dozen members of the broad-based coalition Health...