“As the deadline for submitting public comment for the meaningful use criteria draws near, it seems as if there has been an uptick in concern and criticism being voiced regarding the federal government’s legislative efforts to drive healthcare IT adoption.
In a recent Huffington Post Investigative Fund article, a case is made that rural health organizations, many of which do not have healthcare IT initiatives or resources in place, will be unable to collect inventive funds because the meaningful use criteria is too onerous. It also contends that the criteria favor hospitals and IDNs that have already spent millions of dollars on their healthcare IT infrastructure. Fair enough. There certainly are grounds for that argument.”
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch, 10 March 2010
