Healthcare IT Today March 3, 2020
For what seems like an eternity, providers have been struggling with quality reporting requirements imposed by the MIPS program. Now, at long last, CMS seems to be taking steps to ease the MIPS burden via the magic of EHRs.
According to a piece in Fierce Healthcare, CMS administrator Seema Verma has a plan to shift MIPS reporting from a labor-intensive headache to an essentially hands-free process. In her vision, providers will use EHRs to report quality data and clinicians “don’t have to lift a finger,” Verma told the audience at the CMS Quality Conference held in late February.
Her plans rely on the transfer and sharing of data using FHIR standards, which should pave the way for stakeholders to submit...