Healthcare Innovation September 15, 2021
In a “Viewpoint” article in JAMA Network Online, additional steps are suggested for strengthening the new CMS rules about the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program and its Protect Patient Health Information Objective
On Sept. 10, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Online published a “Viewpoint” article entitled, “Policies to Promote Shared Responsibility for Safer Electronic Health Records,” by Dean F. Sittig, Ph.D. and Hardeep Singh, M.D. The authors address the new rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program and its Protect Patient Health Information Objective. The authors specifically focus on the addition CMS made of an underscored, attestation-only measure that requires hospitals to attest to having completed an annual...