Obama’s stimulus fund requires EHR to be meaningful use in order to receive the stimulus funding. However, the definition of meaningful use is very unclear.
Although the measures for meaningful use are becoming more apparent, it is also clear that the industry has a long way to go to implement many of them.
Providers have many questions: How will the metrics of meaningful use be measured? What level of implementation is realistic? And what is clinically sound?
Hopefully next year brings a clear picture to the EHR system.