Monday Morning Rounds with CMS
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ONC A Year in Review and Momentum for 2021
The ONC hosted a webinar looking at the wide range of application programming interface (API)-forward policies and industry actions that are being used to accelerate interoperability of health data.
Re-imagining AHRQ’s Insight Platform
By Gopal Khanna MBA & Joel Cohen PhD – As COVID-19 has continued its unrelenting advance across the Nation, urgent questions have confronted an often overwhelmed healthcare system: How many hospital beds are available in different locations around the country? How many are currently occupied? What is the capacity of hospitals to provide ICU and ventilator care?
CMS Releases 2021 Final Rule for the Quality Payment Program
CMS published the final policies for the 2021 performance year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) through the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule. Read the highlights.
What’s Happening at the ONC – 12-04-20
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 more information on the 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, a new initiative, Project US@, & recently posted #CuresRuleONC Information Blocking FAQs.
Accelerating API and App Connectivity: Consumer Perspectives
By Kevin Chaney, Allison Dennis & Teresa Zayas Cabán – With the publication of the ONC Cures Act Final Rule, health IT developers, healthcare providers, and app developers now have formal direction regarding the content and transaction standards required for consumers to access their health information using standards-based APIs and healthcare apps.
Diagnostic Safety in the COVID Era: Let’s Not Squander the Opportunity
By Gopal Khanna MBA & Jeffrey Brady MD MPH – As we seek to develop a national healthcare system that delivers true 21st century care, we are confronted by a COVID-19 pandemic that has identified numerous challenges. Among the most important: the need to provide correct diagnoses.
Monday Morning Rounds with CMS
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
Reminder: Upcoming MIPS Important Dates and Deadlines
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to remind clinicians of important upcoming Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) dates and deadlines: