“HITECH was signed into law in February 2009 and the Meaningful Use clock starts in October 2011. We’re about half way through the process. How are we doing so far? Will we be ready in time? Everybody seems busy, none more so than ONC, and about $1.5 Billion has been awarded to States, Universities and Health Care organizations.
There are roughly five categories of grants: Interoperability, Adoption Assistance, Workforce Development, Pilots and HIT Research, all of them starting to take shape roughly at the same time. In parallel, ONC is working on the NHIN and NHIN-Direct interoperability frameworks, the EHR certification process is in final stages of definition, CMS is almost ready to finalize Meaningful Use criteria and NIST has finished a first draft of test procedures for whoever will be certifying EHRs during Stage 1 of Meaningful Use.”
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Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology, 26 May 2010
