“Reading through the headlines, the press releases and checking in on today’s HIT Policy Committee meeting, it appears that the over-riding theme of comments regarding Meaningful Use (MU) rules (these were due by COB on 3/15) is to relax the rules, particularly regarding reimbursement and clarify other requirements of MU to ease the burden on providers seeking to comply.
This is not too surprising.
The policy to make incentive payments for EHR adoption and all or nothing deal (either you comply 100% to MU criteria to get reimbursement or nothing) is just plain silly. Sure, flexibility will put a greater administrative burden on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), but the risk of low adoption due to lack of flexibility is a real issue that CMS needs to address.”
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John Moore, Healthcare IT News, 18 March 2010
