Healthcare organizations praised the CMS for proposing greater flexibility in electronic health record requirements under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System track of MACRA and asked the agency to standardize EHR requirements across incentive programs.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the American Hospital Association, the American Health Information Management Association and others supported CMS’ proposed 2018 performance year rule’s change that would allow clinicians to continue to use 2014 edition certified EHRs for another year, potentially saving them the effort of updating and installing new software.
