“Republicans are not the only ones blocking the Obama Administration’s healthcare agenda these days. Hospitals are also pushing back big-time against the “meaningful use” criteria required for them to get government health IT incentives. Healthcare executives are grumbling, in particular, about the large number of quality metrics-35 in all-that they will have to report on in 2011. And three of the largest integrated delivery networks in the country said that they would have difficulty meeting all of the meaningful use requirements.”
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Ken Terry, BNET Healthcare, 21 January 2010

