HealthIT Answers May 1, 2018
CMS continues to refine and streamline incentive programs, this time focusing on Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) for hospitals and the Advancing Care Information (ACI) category for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). As stated by CMS, effective immediately EHR incentive programs and the MIPS ACI category are being renamed to Promoting Interoperability, PI. This change will move these programs into another important phase, increasing focus on interoperability and improving patient access to health information.
CMS published the IPPS Proposed Rule last week announcing the renaming and proposed redesign of the hospital Meaningful Use (MU) program as the “Promoting Interoperability (PI)” program. The proposed changes would apply to the Medicare hospital MU program, and are reflective of some...
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