CMS is encouraging providers to participate in an interoperability pilot to test medical documentation exchanges. The initiatives of this program include reducing administrative burden for providers and improve provider-to-provider communication.
The EMDI stakeholders include hospitals, physicians, DME companies, home health agencies, health information exchanges, electronic health record vendors, electronic medical record vendors, laboratories, and other healthcare organizations.
The Electronic Medical Documentation Interoperability (EMDI) Initiative is designed to reduce provider burden by helping you standardize your workflow, so you can send and receive documentation electronically. Per the CMS EMDI website, “The EMDI Initiative, associated documentation, and pilots are for the purposes of evaluating the performance of CMS policies that involve interoperability and the collection of data/information only, and do not involve any rule making, changing of current CMS policy, or the creation of new requirements for Medicare beneficiaries or providers.”
For more information, visit the EMDI Collaboration Website or register for an EMDI Introduction Webinar.