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Health Care Week in Review: Updates on Meaningful Use, Editing Embryo DNA, MIPS Participation, Graham-Cassidy Bill

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Here's The Latest in Health Care:

•  The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT recently announced two big changes to the meaningful use certification program. The first gives EHR makers the ability to self-declare compliance. The second provides more discretion around randomized surveillance of certified health IT products. These changes are designed to reduce burden on the health care industry.  Read More

•  For the first time, researchers have been able to modify a key gene in human embryo DNA which gives crucial insight into embryo development. This work may someday lead to new techniques that can help infertile couples have children or treat incurable diseases with embryonic stem cells.  Read More

•  In order to earn a small positive adjustment from Medicare, doctors and practices need to begin collecting data no later than Oct. 2 to fully participate in MIPS, or the Merit-based Incentive Payment System's 90-day reporting period. The government has even made it easier for doctors to avoid a payment penalty based on 2017 reporting by allowing them to pick one measure for one patient, at the very minimum.  Read More

•  After a series of failed Senate votes in July, one repeal-and-replace plan for the Affordable Care Act remains. The proposal turns control of the health care markets over to the states. So, rather than funding Medicaid and subsidies directly, that money goes to the state to develop any health care system it wants.  Read More

Each Friday, Signor Goat reports the latest from the week in health care. Check back next Friday for your dose of our little medical corner of health care news. Brought to you by pMD, innovators in charge capture software.

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