Electronic Health Records (EHRs) - Meaningful Use
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2019.
- Medicare
- Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS)
- Medicare DSH
- Electronic Health Records (EHRs) - Meaningful Use
- Health Information Technology (HIT)
- Interoperability
- Medicare Area Wage Index (AWI)
- Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
- Value-based payment
- Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program
- Electronic Clinical Quality Measures
- Quality & Patient Safety
- Quality Measures
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released a resource to help electronic health record vendors and others incorporate post-acute care assessment instrument data elements into electronic health record products to improve interoperability and facilitate care coordination.
AHA statement before the Senate Finance Committee on "Rural Health Care in America: Challenges and Opportunities."
We’re pleased to see CMS follow through on its commitment to reduce regulatory burden. This is crucially needed as we continue, and accelerate, the transition to value-based care.
The CMS April 24 issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system and long-term care hospital PPS proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2019.
Inpatient prospective payment system hospitals and critical access hospitals that did not achieve meaningful use of electronic health records under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program for 2017 can now apply for a hardship exception.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last month extended to March 16 at 11:59 p.m. PT the Medicare deadline for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals to submit electronic clinical quality measure data and to attest to meaningful use of electronic health records for calendar…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced MyHealthEData, a federal initiative to expand patient access to their medical data electronically.
Hospitals and health systems continue to enhance their ability to electronically share essential patient information with health care providers and engage patients in their health care.
This is the second in a series of issue briefs highlighting data from the 2016 AHA Annual Survey Information Technology (IT) Supplement for community hospitals collected November 2016 – April 2017. This brief focuses on provider sharing and use of clinical data and barriers to effective use of…