Inside Digital Health August 14, 2019
CMS announced a long-awaited interoperability proposal designed to improve patient access to health data and care coordination back February.
What will it mean to real-world healthcare settings?
One of the most meaningful proposed changes is adding a requirement to the Conditions of Participation for Medicare hospitals to share ADT (admissions, discharge, and transfer) data for electronic patient event notifications.
The benefit of sharing ADT transactions across thousands of providers would be impactful immediately and the proposed changes would formalize CMS’ care coordination efforts, sending the message that care coordination is integral to improving patient care.
Making Data Exchange More Meaningful
Since ADT data is generated in real-time as patient care is being delivered, it enables providers to leverage the...