How Meaningful Is Meaningful Use?

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What Is the Cost of Meaningful Use?

The Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Care Record Incentive Program was established to encourage widespread adoption of an electronic health record (EHR) by providing incentive payments for showing meaningful use (MU) of EHR systems. The MU requirements were first introduced in 2011. A second phase of requirements was released in 2014, and a third is expected in 2016. EHR adoption has pea...

How to survive an EHR meaningful use audit.

Andrew Pasternak, MD, MS I 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the meaningful use (MU) program to promote the use of electronic health records (EHRs) in hospitals and physician offices. If measured by how many physicians currently use EHRs, the program has been successful; the percentage of offices using an EHR has increased from 48 percent in 2009 to 72 percent...

Meaningful use: Floor or ceiling?

BACKGROUND In 2011, federal incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) began. This study evaluates the impact of the program on hospitals and EHR vendors, identifying how it affects EHR planning and development. Specifically, it assesses whether vendors and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are viewing the meaningful use requirements as a floor - the minimally acc...