Leveraging Technology
Hospitals, critical access hospitals and eligible professionals who did not achieve meaningful use in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for the 2015 reporting period can apply through July 1 for a hardship exception from the 2017 payment adjustment. CAHs that have already鈥
The ability for hospitals to send and receive electronic information from other care providers 鈥 also known as interoperability 鈥 is critical to advancing health in America. According to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology hospitals are making progress 鈥
The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology should measure not only electronic health information exchange and use, but the availability of standards, structures and infrastructure to support those goals, AHA said in comments鈥
An estimated 84% of non-federal acute care hospitals had at least a basic electronic health record in 2015, up from 76% in 2014 and 28% in 2011, according to a report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information鈥
The AHA today expressed support for draft legislation in the Senate that would eliminate the 鈥渁ll-or-nothing approach鈥 to meaningful use under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive Programs.
Fewer than 1% of rural Medicare beneficiaries received a telemedicine visit in 2013, according to a study reported this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The average number of telemedicine visits for the 41,070 rural beneficiaries who did was 2.6, for a total of 107,955鈥
The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology yesterday announced $1.5 million in funding to test selected clinical interoperability standards for health IT in priority areas, such as medication management, laboratory data exchange鈥