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Primary Care Practices’ Progress Of Using Electronic Health Information Exchange (Hie), Susan M. Heyde
Primary Care Practices’ Progress Of Using Electronic Health Information Exchange (Hie), Susan M. Heyde
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Now that EHRs are purportedly fully implemented in the healthcare industry, it is important to evaluate the electronic Health Information Exchange (HIE) between primary care facilities, laboratories, hospitals, specialists, regional coops, and public health authorities.
Meaningful Use Stage 3 implementation is to begin this year, 2018. Complementing this implementation, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, MACRA, was signed into law on April 16, 2015. MACRA removes eligible clinicians from EHR Incentive Programs that were previously established by the HITECH Act. MACRA also creates the Quality Payment Program that the CMS will use for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement to primary …