“While the vast majority of CIOs expect that their organizations will achieve Meaningful Use (MU) within Stage 1 of the program, nearly 90% said they still had concerns about meeting the requirements and, of those, 28% cited capturing and submitting data for quality measures as their largest concern, according to a recent survey by CHIME.
“Quality measures is the sticky wicket for everyone. These measures have to be created directly from your EHR versus having them abstracted and entered into the CMS Web site as we do today, so this is going to be very challenging,” said Pam McNutt, SVP/CIO, Methodist Health System, and chair, CHIME Policy Steering Committee.”
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Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek Healthcare, 15 April 2011
