Health IT Interoperability August 8, 2016
Stage 3 Meaningful Use requirements take aim at advancing health IT interoperability, namely via increased API use.
As originally planned, eligible professionals and hospitals would to move from EHR adoption and data capture to advanced EHR use an health information exchange. While the meaningful use timeline has changed considerably with Stage 3 Meaningful Use beginning in 2018 (rather than 2016 as designed), the emphasis on health IT interoperability and health data exchange has not.
Since the publishing of the final rule for Stage 3 Meaningful Use and modifications to meaningful use requirements in previous stages, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule for MACRA implementation that removes Medicare providers, known as eligible clinicians, from the EHR...