Yesterday CMS released their annual NPRM for Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) for acute care hospitals and long-term care hospitals, and they used the opportunity to propose several changes to Meaningful Use Program. Read on to see what has changed. A rose by any other name... First, they are renaming the official name to EHR Incentive Program to Promoting Interoperability (PI). All Medicaid incentives end by CY 2021 so it make sense to drop the “incentive” part, b

On Wednesday, the HITAC met for their monthly meeting, and their US Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) task force shared their recommendations on improving the ONC's USCDI, which ONC introduced earlier this year along with their TEFCA work. You can find their material here, but I really felt their recommendations were solid and well-made. ONC has introduced the idea of USCDI and a process for its growth, but they only provided a light framework around it for determining h