Modern Healthcare July 6, 2016
A federal agency plans on leveraging two existing surveys of hospitals and office-based physicians to meet a mandate under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 to measure—initially—two types of use and sharing of health information nationwide.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS has announced it plans to measure:
• The proportion of healthcare providers who are electronically sending, receiving, querying and integrating information received from outside sources
• The proportion of providers who report using the information they receive from outside providers and sources for clinical decisionmaking
MACRA requires HHS to establish metrics for the exchange and use of healthcare information as a way to measure the “widespread interoperability” of electronic...
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