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Meaningful And More Meaningful: A Modest Measure

We often describe lives (or parts of lives) as meaningful or as not meaningful. It is also common to characterize them as more or less meaningful. Some lives, we tend to think, are more meaningful than others. But how then can one compare lives with respect to how much meaning they contain? Can one? This paper argues that (i) only a notion of rough equality can be used when comparing different ...

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...

Meaningful use for the pediatrician.

it seems that every other week something is new in our medical offices; we are bombarded from all directions. Insurance claims, electronic health records (EHRs), medical boards, hospital privileges—change has become the norm and medicine has become a moving target. Meaningful Use, through its application to EHRs, hopefully has the potential to drastically change how we practice medicine in the ...

Public health surveillance and meaningful use regulations: a crisis of opportunity.

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act is intended to enhance reimbursement of health care providers for meaningful use of electronic health records systems. This presents both opportunities and challenges for public health departments. To earn incentive payments, clinical providers must exchange specified types of data with the public health system, such as imm...