tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2020 Issue Q4

Industry Notes: 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...

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