Healthcare IT News September 21, 2017
Tom Sullivan

Two big changes: EHR makers are now able to self-declare compliance with specific criteria and ONC will not audit random surveillance practices.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on Thursday revealed two changes to its certification criteria that officials said are designed to reduce the burden on industry and make the meaningful use program more efficient.

The first is making more than half of test procedures self-declarable and the second is more discretion around randomized surveillance of certified health IT products.

[Also: 4 former national coordinators, a CIO and a CEO weigh in on how to fix meaningful use]

Elise Anthony, director of policy at ONC, and Steven Posnack, director of ONC’s Office of Standards and Technology,...

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Topics: CMS, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, Medicare, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt)
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