Experts weigh in on CMS' big changes to clinical documentation, EHRs and interoperability

The "historic changes" announced late yesterday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, promising big adjustments to its policies around the Physician Fee Schedule and the Quality Payment Program, already have the healthcare industry talking. CMS says it wants to incentivize the use of and access to virtual care and telehealth, to ease the quality reporting burden on physicians by focusing on the most important and impactful measures. It also wants to spur better information sharing among healthcare providers, regardless of what electronic health record vendor they happen to use.