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.
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:
On MACRA, goal was to simplify reporting & make docs feel more in control. MIPS part promising, but ultimate control is total cost of care
— Farzad Mostashari (@Farzad_MD) April 30, 2016
Group-based reporting will help reduce reporting burden, but without viable intermediaries market, can also increase consolidation pressure
— Farzad Mostashari (@Farzad_MD) April 30, 2016
And this seems to be the "no more all or nothing" component of #MACRA's health IT portion pic.twitter.com/nrCGA9CPoz
— Gabriel Perna (@GabrielSPerna) April 27, 2016
CMS is promising an end to the all-or-nothing approach of meaningful use. How it does that is unclear to me.
— Alex Ruoff (@Alexruoff) April 27, 2016
MACRA might take us further than meaningful use ever could have... https://t.co/JWU8ZRiWux
— Dr. J (@PhlyingRPh) April 29, 2016
This could become a pretty big issue for many physicians - one of my biggest concerns w new MACRA https://t.co/LEWT3cjSNF
— John Moore (@john_chilmark) April 28, 2016
Put #MACRA where it belongs – in Boston Harbor. @anishkoka: The Angry Physician https://t.co/hPfVS7vY7i @THCBstaff #MeaningfulUse #EHR #ONC
— Sue Woods MD MPH (@SueWoods) May 1, 2016
Really good YouTube "whiteboard" connecting the dots of our MACRA announcement. Plain English. No acronyms. Wow. https://t.co/qLHSpYnWRX
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) April 27, 2016
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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.