Meaningful Use
Interoperability
The next phase of meaningful use is to create an ecosystem of APIs and apps, end data blocking and give patients choices about what tools they use to access their medical information.
Electronic Health Records
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services effort to reduce regulatory burdens are being warmly received but the industry appears less excited about price transparency and patient access to EHR data stipulations.
Electronic Health Records
Administrator Seema Verma said changes to the program eliminate 25 measures and ultimately save hospitals over 2 million hours of work.
Interoperability
As the agency works to advance an array of big projects, ONC is also focused on reducing documentation and quality reporting burdens for providers.
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William Kloes, president of commercial health at Leidos, believes that deeply integrated IT systems can deliver the data and analytics needed to prosper in the new world of value-based care.
Meaningful Use
The administration said the burden these programs put on doctors and hospitals has led to consolidation, which reduces competition and drives prices higher.
Electronic Health Records
Hospitals can improve the overall process by getting the right people involved, institutions flexibility of data capture, and create a feedback loop.
MACRA
The former Eli Lilly CEO also told the Senate Finance Committee affordability and the opioid epidemic round out his top four priorities.
Electronic Health Records
The proposed legislation would remove the all-or-nothing approach of meaningful use and extend flexibility.
Compliance
The high threshold for patient engagement in 2019 will probably be amended in future rulemakings, but one MU expert says it highlights the limited utility of patient portals.