Stakeholders Pleased With Meaningful Use Changes Considered By CMS

CMS is considering shortening the so-called meaningful use of electronic health record reporting period for 2015, alongside other changes to the program, in a planned proposed rule to update Medicare and Medicaid meaningful use, the agency announced in a blog Thursday (Jan. 29). The College of Health Information Management Executives, Medical Group Management Association, American Medical Association, American Hospital Association and Federation of American Hospitals have called the move to reduce the 2015 reporting period from a full year to...