HealthIT Answers June 9, 2021
By Elisabeth Myers and Jeff Smith, ONC
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed modifications to its Promoting Interoperability Program that, if finalized, would require hospitals to report on four public health and clinical data exchange measures. This proposal is the latest in a series of coordinated steps taken across HHS to leverage data standards and specifications adopted as part of ONC’s Health IT Certification Program to enable nationwide public health reporting.
To mitigate and recover from widespread communicable disease, such as COVID-19, government and public health officials need a detailed view of where cases are growing across the country and which patient populations are most affected. One tool used by public health authorities to track and...
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