“At last week’s enormous HIMSS (health IT) conference, ONC (the Office of the National Coordinator for health IT) announced the long-awaited rules for Stage 2 of meaningful use. (These are the rules that must be met, for health IT systems to qualify for Federal incentives and, later, avoid penalties. Stage 1 rules were announced last year, SPM member Regina Holliday was on stage, with “the other Regina” – Surgeon General Regina Benjamin.)
Long-time SPM member Adrian Gropper MD, of HealthURL, has already digested the 450 pages and distilled it into the e-patient impact. He posted it to Google Docs, and agreed to let us cross-post it here. (Adrian is @AGropper on Twitter.)”
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e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net, 27 February 2012
