Meaningful Use
Eagle provides regular articles about Meaningful use and updates from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). We also provide analysis, recommendations, and links to supporting documents to help our clients stay up on rules and requirements, including the Objectives and Measures for Meaningful Use — 2015-2017 — you can download at right (PDF).
The Meaningful Use program will fragment on 1/1/2017. Physicians who participate in the Medicare version of Meaningful Use will instead participate in the “Advancing Care Information” component of the MIPS Program. The existing Meaningful Use rules and programs will continue for hospitals and physician practices who participate under the Medicaid Meaningful Use program.
2016 OIG Work Plan includes HIPAA and Meaningful Use Items
This week the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released its Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2016. Combing through this 76 page document revealed some items of interest relating to HIPAA and Meaningful Use. In particular, we note two areas of investigation: 1)... Read MoreCMS Unveils Long Awaited Meaningful Use Rule Changes for 2015
Did you know that Stage 2 is restructured from 17 core objectives and 6 menu set objectives to a simplified 10 required objectives? CMS has released its meaningful use rules for 2015 — we’ve reviewed them and have some analysis of objectives and measures for you.
Read MoreSecurity Risk Analysis Required For MU Stages 2 and 3
What’s going on with new privacy and security objectives for Meaningful Use in healthcare? New MU Stage 2 Rules affirm that an annual Security Risk Analysis (SRA) must be conducted, and that the scope of this SRA may be limited to the data in the EHR.
Read MoreMeaningful Use and the Evolution of Privacy and Security Objective
After the Oct. 2015 update from CMS, meaningful use and the security objective as this objective has moved from last, Core Measure 15 of 15, to first, Measure 1 of 10. We review what this means for provider in the latest edition of our newsletter.
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