The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced changes to the meaningful use program, as well as urging hospitals to disclose prices to patients, in its proposed annual inpatient hospital rule for 2019.

Renamed “promoting interoperability”, the agency intends the revamped meaningful use program “to better emphasize measures that require the exchange of health information between providers and patients and give providers incentives to make it easier for patients to obtain their medical records electronically.” The rule will also decrease the number of quality measures hospitals are required to report.

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