In its fourth installment for National Health IT Week, CMS has posted information about public health reporting meaningful use requirements for the 2016 reporting year.
Eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals will all need to submit public health reporting data in order to successfully attest to meaningful use.
Eligible professionals will need to attest to two out of three public health reporting measures, while eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals will have to attest to three out of four measures. The measures include:
- Immunization registry reporting
- Syndromic surveillance reporting
- Specialized registry reporting
- Electronic Reportable Laboratory results reporting
Eligible providers may report to multiple specialized registries, and each reported registry will count toward the total number of submitted measures.
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CMS says that there are multiple exclusion options for eligible providers during the 2016 reporting period. All of those exclusion options are listed on the Public Health Reporting specification sheets.
Eligible providers may attest alternate exclusions if they do not have and did not previously plan to have additional technology for meaningful use attestation in this reporting period. Eligible providers may attest alternate exclusions for the following:
- Syndromic surveillance reporting
- Specialized registry reporting
To help eligible providers find entities that accept public health reporting data, CMS has begun building a central repository. In joining these repositories, entities are declaring that they are ready to begin accepting public health reporting data.
CMS published this review as a part of its activities for National Health IT Week. Earlier this week, the agency published reviews of meaningful use rules, exclusion rules, and clinical quality measure rules.
Date: September 29, 2016