Healthcare IT News August 4, 2017
Bill Siwicki

Hospitals have a newfound cushion of time to meet stage 3 meaningful-use measures, which they now won’t have to satisfy until 2019, a year later than was previously required.

According to a new timeline issued by the CMS Wednesday in the final Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule, hospitals can continue to use 2014 certified electronic health record technology through the end of 2018 and will be required to use 2015 certified EHR technology starting in 2019. This applies to Medicare payment and policies for patients discharged from hospitals between Oct. 1, 2017, and Sept. 30, 2018.

The change to certified EHR technology requirements mirrors the change for physicians in the Quality Payment Program proposed rule issued in June,...

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Topics: CMS, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, Medicare, Provider
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