“It will take a while for clinicians to absorb the information in the 800-plus pages of the final rules for Stage 1 meaningful use of electronic healthcare information. It will take longer for the results of this rule to emerge. However, CMIOs weighing in on this far-reaching initiative already say they have mixed opinions of it.
“Overall, I think the rule is fair. If I had to give it a grade I’d give it a B minus. I’d give the CMS folks in collaboration with ONC an A for effort,” stated Ferdinand Velasco, MD, CMIO at Texas Health Resources, a system of 13 hospitals serving North Texas, based in Arlington.”
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CMIO, 19 July 2010
