Health IT & Interoperability

PIPromoting Interoperability

The CMS program (formerly Meaningful Use) that rewards the meaningful use of certified EHR technology and data exchange.

Reviewed June 2026 by Enterprise Health

Key facts

  • CMS program formerly known as Meaningful Use.
  • A MIPS category scoring use of certified EHR technology.
  • Rewards data exchange, patient access and public-health reporting.

What it means

Promoting Interoperability, once known as Meaningful Use, is a MIPS performance category scoring how an organization uses certified EHR technology to exchange data, enable patient access and support public-health reporting. It rewards real interoperability — exactly the registry, lab and patient-access connections an occupational-health system of record relies on.

Frequently asked

What is the Promoting Interoperability program?

A CMS program — once called Meaningful Use — that scores how organizations use certified EHR technology to exchange data, enable patient access and support public-health reporting. It's a MIPS performance category.

What does Promoting Interoperability reward?

Real interoperability — the registry, lab and patient-access connections a system of record relies on. Certified technology generates the needed data as a by-product of care.

A certified, interoperable system of record.

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