“HITECH’s Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements started their year-plus journey through federal advisory committees, regulation writers, public comment, and countless revisions after a draft set of recommendations were floated for discussion at this month’s HIT Policy Committee meeting.
Outlined by Paul Tang, M.D., vice chair of the committee and chair of its Meaningful Use Workgroup, the measures generally seek to increase thresholds established in Stage 1 as they climb to a Stage 3 apex. In a preface to his presentation, Tang, who is VP and CMIO at Palo Alto Medical Foundation, emphasized that the committee would have two more opportunities to review the measures. He, and National Coordinator for HIT David Blumenthal, M.D, also wanted it known that, as much as possible, findings from Stage 1 would be analyzed and referenced in the formulation of Stage 2.”
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Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek Healthcare, 17 December 2010
