Enhanced CHPL Search
A few weeks ago, ONC made some nice enhancements to their CHPL. They have added specific pages for listing decertification (not the pages a developer wants to be on) and also finally adds some downloadable CSV delimited files for showing all certified products (under the Resources tab). Previously, you could only get the full list via a XML file which was not easy for human reading, and this is a much improved . Their list serv notification is copied below. NEW Certified Heal
CMS Reporting Rules - MIPS vs MU
Lost amidst the long awaited MIPS/APM Incentive rule and long overdue 21st Century Cures Act, CMS also dropped their Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system and the Medicare ambulatory surgical center payment system Final Rule (OPPS/ASC). Within this, CMS introduced some changes to some of their EHR Incentive Program which impacts both providers and developers, including changes to the required measures and reporting period. You can read a good summary of thi
eCQM ICD-10 January 2017 Update
Today, CMS released their special update on new ICD-10 CM codes for eCQMs. Typically, CMS makes updates to their measure definitions in the annual update period (generally around April-June), but this special update is just for some ICD-10 changes. You can see the list of affected measures here on this page via January 2017 update as well as this specific link to the PDF. The ICD-10 codes used per measure are found at the VSAC site. From the Technical Release PDF, each affect
