CHIME Leaders Ask Members to Let CMS Know of CEHRT Concerns

Healthcare Informatics: A clash of schedules is emerging, one that worries the advocacy professionals at the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). On Monday morning, Mari Savickis, vice president, federal affairs, and Leslie Kriegstein, vice president, congressional affairs, for the association, sent CHIME members a notice regarding members’ opportunity to share with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) their concerns over the current situation with the CEHRT (Certified Electronic Health Record Technology) program, and the very significant possibility that hospital organizations could be penalized for not using EHRs that have been certified as of the 2015 program requirements, even as EHR vendors have not yet completed their certifications.

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