Provide Patients Electronic Access to Their Health Information
The objective of this measure is to provide patients the ability to view online, download, and transmit their health information and to access their health information through a third-party application.
This measure requires a the patient and provider portal. To learn more about this upgrade, go to eyefinity.com.
Once your practice is migrated to the new patient and provider portal and each clinician is assigned an account, ExamWRITER will automatically send exam information to the patient portal when you finalize the exam. Patients will be notified when a new heath record is available.
- Finalize your exams within four days to achieve this measure.
- For more information on setting up the patient and provider portal for your practice, refer to Sharing Information with the Patient and Provider Portal (2019 and Beyond).
Encourage your patients to log into the portal and view their records. Download an instructional flier to help your patients.
For at least one unique patient seen by the MIPS-eligible clinician the following conditions must be met:
- The patient (or the patient-authorized representative) is provided timely access to view online, download, and transmit his or her health information; AND
- The MIPS-eligible clinician ensures the patient's health information is available for the patient (or patient-authorized representative) to access using any application of their choice that is configured to meet the technical specifications of the Application Programming Interface (API) in the MIPS-eligible clinician's certified EHR.
At the time of this publication, there are no applications that connect to Encompass or ExamWRITER through an API. This is an emerging requirement from ONC and CMS, and we expect applications will become available in the future. For now, continue to provide access to patient health information through the patient portal.
You must finalize the exam within four days of the encounter to earn credit for giving the patient access to the exam information. If you see the patient more than once during the performance period, or even in subsequent performance periods in future years, you must provide timely access each time.
Denominator
The number of unique patients seen by the MIPS-eligible clinician during the performance period.
Numerator
The number of patients in the denominator (or patient-authorized representatives) who are provided timely access (within four business days) to health information to view online, download, and transmit to a third party and to access using an application of their choice that is configured meet the technical specifications of the API in the MIPS-eligible clinician's certified EHR.
Threshold
The numerator must be one or more.
This measure is required to achieve a promoting interoperability score. This measure is worth 25 points.
The following are suggested roles for completing this measure:
- Doctor
- Technician
- Scribe
- Front desk