AFMC’s HealthIT staff leverages expertise in health information technology to enhance provider performance in transformative health care initiatives.
To reflect CMS’s commitment to interoperability of health care data and patients’ access to their health information, the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program has been overhauled. In 2018, the EHR Incentive Program known as Meaningful Use (MU) changed its name to the Promoting Interoperability (PI) program.
In addition, the MIPS Advancing Care Information performance category is now known as the Promoting Interoperability performance category. This rebranding does not merge the EHR Incentive Program and MIPS. Instead, these changes reflect CMS’s mission to move these programs beyond the current Meaningful Use requirement to an increased focus on interoperability and ease of patient access to health information.
The 2016 Patient Engagement Satisfaction Survey Results shows answers from Arkansas’ medical providers and patients about their health care experiences and use of health information technology (HIT) such as electronic health records and patient portals. AFMC and Arkansas Medicaid are working together to increase the use of HIT by the State’s Medicaid population. As a National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Certified Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) Survey Vendor, AFMC collected answers from over 1,000 health care providers and over 6,500 Medicaid beneficiaries to complete the patient satisfaction survey.
You can download results here.
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