CMS made a series of changes that will affect the use of health IT in its latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program proposal released July 12. Changes are aimed at getting ...
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced changes to overhaul the meaningful use EHR incentive program, including equipping patients with access to ...
The WEDI baseline survey shows many providers and payers have yet to start implementing the requirements of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Advancing Interoperability and Improving ...
In the past few months, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has announced new and renewed initiatives to promote health information sharing and interoperability among health ...
The digital transformation of healthcare is accelerating, but not fast enough. Like the financial sector in the early 2000s, healthcare is under pressure to modernize. Patients expect medical record ...
However, HHS said that in response to commentators' inquiries, the OIG does not intend to use its authority to investigate information blocking for potential noncompliance with CMS requirements, ...
The health IT arm of the Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule this week that federal leaders say will remove red tape and enable faster prior authorization and real-time ...
The American Hospital Association provides comment on the “Health Data, Technology and Interoperability: ASTP/ONC Deregulatory Actions to Unleash Prosperity” (HTI-5) proposed rule.
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has finalized a series of new rules related to the use of technology for electronic prescribing and prior authorization. In the rules, the Assistant ...