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Industry Reactions to MACRA & Meaningful Use Announcement

By: Nextech | May 2nd, 2016

Industry Reactions to MACRA & Meaningful Use Announcement Blog Feature

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a major change was coming to the healthcare IT industry - the MACRA proposed rule would end Meaningful Use, as it's conducted today, on Jan. 1, 2017.social-media.jpg

Instead, Meaningful Use would be replaced by Advancing Care Information, which would be implemented into the Merit-based Payment System (MIPS).

Those within the healthcare IT industry reacted quickly to the big news with responses ranging from hopeful to critical.

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See some of these responses below:

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If you'd like to let the government know your opinion, there is currently a 60-day public comment period on the proposed rules. You can access that here.