Respiratory Question for the Week of January 9, 2017

Question:

We are trying to develop a document that helps physicians document the need for home oxygen therapy. Can you provide any guidance about this?

Answer:

To assist physicians in better documenting their medical records, for Medicare purposes, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is developing a list of clinical data elements (CDEs) that would allow electronic health record vendors to create prompts to assist physicians when documenting the need for home oxygen therapy: 1) order 2) face-to-face encounter and 3) lab test results. In addition, CMS has created visual examples to demonstrate how the prompts might look in production templates.

More on the home oxygen templates, go to https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Computer-Data-and-Systems/Electronic-Clinical-Templates/Home_Oxygen_Templates.html.