Modern Healthcare March 6, 2018
Virgil Dickson

CMS Administrator Seema Verma said her agency is planning on overhauling its meaningful-use requirements, after years of provider complaints that the program was too burdensome and hard to implement.

Specifically, the CMS is looking to reduce time and compliance costs associated with the program. Verma didn’t provide any additional details during her speech at HIMSS’ annual conference on Tuesday. A CMS spokesman did not return a request for comment on additional details on when or how meaningful use requirements would be overhauled.

Verma on Tuesday also unveiled two new initiatives, including the MyHealthEData program to make it easier for patients to obtain and share their medical records.

“It is extremely rare for different provider systems to be able to share...

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Topics: CMS, Conferences / Podcast, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Primary care
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