From The Health IT Buzz blog – Many hospitals have adopted systems for interoperable patient data exchange and are connected to national networks. However, ONC has consistently found that rates of interoperable exchange for smaller, rural, and independent hospitals have notably lagged behind other hospitals.
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Deadlines: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would like to remind clinicians of important upcoming Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) dates and deadlines:
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By Mark Knee & Jawanna Henry – In January 2022, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Version 1 of the Common Agreement was released. A year later, six organizations became candidate QHINs and committed to complete “onboarding” and “go live” by the end of 2023 – we are still on target!
By Matt Fisher – As part of its annual summer tradition, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published the proposed 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule with some seeming shakeups to reimbursements. A relatively small part of the proposed rule could be a pebble being taken out of a dam that enables more change to flow.
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including new proposals to establish disincentives for health care providers, a webinar to learn about the proposals in the rule, an updated version of the Security Risk Assessment Tool, & more.
CMS announced it is finalizing policies to support primary care, advance health equity, assist family caregivers and expand access to behavioral and certain oral health care.
By Micky Tripathi & Jonathan Blum – A new proposed rule released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services details HHS’ first steps for holding health care providers accountable for information blocking under the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act).
Proposed rule for public comment establishes disincentives for health care providers found by the HHS OIG to have committed information blocking. In cases of knowingly and unreasonably interferes with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information.