To participate successfully in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs in 2016, providers must meet the thresholds of all required objectives and measures, or qualify for an exclusion and/or alternate exclusion.
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By Buff Colchagoff – There was a time when most Americans built their own homes. Think of log cabins being crafted by hardy individuals — cutting the trees, hewing logs and fitting the doors. Now, that method is a romantic idea, but almost nobody does that any more.
On November 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the updated payment rates and policy changes in the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System for calendar year 2017.
By William Hyman – Clinical Decision Support has been part of Meaningful Use under the EHR incentive program. The current CDS requirement for hospitals is to implement five clinical decision support interventions related to four or more clinical quality measures.
By D’Arcy Gue – Most of the time, discussions about behavioral health EHR costs focus almost exclusively on the actual outlay for the system, implementation and ongoing maintenance. Maybe hardware is also included when the behavioral health hospital in question doesn’t have the requisite foundation.
By Abhinav Shashank – The digitization of healthcare was a much-needed change brought after years of hard work and effort. One might wonder how to justify the expenditure of 10 billion dollars in a span of five years just on digitization!
SecurityScorecard released its 2016 Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Report – a comprehensive analysis exposing alarming cybersecurity vulnerabilities across 700 healthcare organizations.
By Irv H. Lichtenwald – We will get to a point where EHRs are a great deal more functional and user friendly, where APIs link most if not all health IT platforms and clinical devices, where wearable technology enables remote monitoring of patient condition.
To participate successfully in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs in 2016, providers must be in active engagement with a public health agency submitting using CEHRT.