About eHealth

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) eHealth initiative aligns health information technology (Health IT) and electronic standards programs. Together these eHealth initiatives will help the health care industry deliver higher quality care and reduce costs. The CMS eHealth programs include:

• Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs
• Quality Measurement
  • Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)
  • Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (Hospital IQR) Program
• eRx Incentive Program
• Administrative Simplification
  • ICD-10
  • Health Plan Identifier (HPID)
  • Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
  • Electronic Remittance Advice (RA)

CMS is working with the health care industry to deliver high quality and efficient health care. The eHealth programs will help improve the health care system, such as:

• Capturing and tracking health information electronically
• Increasing privacy and security of health information
• Better informing patients about their care, and
• Reducing provider paperwork through administrative simplification

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