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Reminder: Feb. 28 deadline to submit eCQM, PIP attestation data

Hospitals participating in the Inpatient Quality Reporting and/or Promoting Interoperability Programs must submit data by Feb. 28 to receive a full payment update in fiscal year 2020.

CMS webinar Dec. 5 on EHR program changes in 2019 IPPS final rule

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Dec. 5 webinar on 2019 and 2020 changes to the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program.

CMS webinar on EHR program changes in 2019 IPPS final rule postponed

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has rescheduled to Dec. 18 its webinar on 2019 and 2020 changes to the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program.

Deadline to submit eCQM, PIP attestation data approaching

Hospitals participating in the Inpatient Quality Reporting and/or Promoting Interoperability Programs must submit data for at least four electronic clinical quality measures from any quarter of calendar year 2018 through the QualityNet secure portal by Feb. 28 to receive a full payment update in fiscal year 2020.

Commentary highlights call to ‘cross the finish line' to full interoperability

In a commentary published Saturday in Modern Healthcare, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and Federation of American Hospitals President and CEO Chip Kahn illustrate why it’s so important for the nation to fully achieve the secure exchange of patient health data and highlight what it will take.

HHS issues proposed rules on interoperability, information blocking

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today proposed new rules to promote electronic health information exchange.

As health care changes, focus turns to disruptive CEOs

Also in this weekly roundup of health care news: CVS debuts a telemedicine app; Amazon to test staff clinics; Oscar Health is armed for disruption; and Big Tech calls for embrace of interoperability standards.

CMS accepting electronic clinical quality data for CY 2018 reporting period

Eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals can now submit electronic clinical quality measure data for the calendar year 2018 reporting period for the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program and the Promoting Interoperability Program.

Verma: Policies Coming to Spur Data Sharing by Insurers

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma yesterday challenged technology developers and insurers to make health information more interoperable and available to patients.

Amazon, Chase and Berkshire Hathaway announce health startup COO

Also in this roundup of health care news: Epic inches toward interoperability; Comcast shepherds health care disruption to keep its own costs low; and San Francisco uses data to get a bigger picture of its homeless population.