Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
Feds Hope to Boost Physicians’ EHR Usage
Hint: Expect heightened focus on IT in the future. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adds another tech initiative to its slate with a plan to improve EHR utilization in physician practices. Details: On Sept. 29, HHS instituted a new program to measure office-based physicians’ use of EHRs in coordination with the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), a release suggests. Research shows that office-based physicians particularly suffer from certain IT-related burdens despite an 80 percent EHR-adoption rate. In fact, “only one in 10 of those physicians reported that they were able to electronically send, receive, find, and integrate health data from EHRs outside of their networks,” HHS says. The collaborative effort aims to use the garnered research to tweak IT policy in future rulemaking.
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