Meaningful Use
As policy wonks and advocates battle over just how much meaningful use will likely change in 2016, the Physician Quality Reporting System might have snuck up on healthcare IT staffs tasked with implementing new technology platforms.
Have you heard of the #HIMSS16 MixTape? Well, Colin Hung is the man who put that together.
IT veteran Laura Young will share best practices for health information exchange among long-term post-acute care and mental and behavioral health providers at HIMSS16.
While rural providers have adopted health IT at the same time or at greater rates as their urban counterparts, meaningful use varies dramatically among them, according to a recent HealthAffairs study.
Though Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services officials on Tuesday tried to clear up confusion over changes and the ultimate replacement of meaningful use, the future is very much in question according one expert who is slated to talk about the subject at the HIMSS16 conference.
One week after Andy Slavitt said meaningful use would be replaced soon, the acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator and national coordinator Karen DeSalvo made it clear that the changes would take time and that providers must still follow the current program.
Thirty-one top health systems, hospitals and clinics are urging the Department of Health and Human Services to think again about pressing forward on Stage 3 meaningful use.
Despite officials this week signaling the end of the meaningful use program, more than 200,000 eligible providers will see a 2 percent cut in their Medicaid payments in 2016 for failing to meet standards in 2014, recent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data show.
Healthcare chief information officers breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday when Andy Slavitt said the end of the meaningful use program was near. But many are waiting on the details before celebrating too much.
Acting CMS administrator says several programs will change as healthcare industry wades deeper into value-based reimbursement.