On Wednesday, the American Medical Association released a memo saying that the final rule for the “meaningful use” of electronic health records is an improvement over the proposed rule but that it also contains several problems, Modern Healthcare reports (Robeznieks, Modern Healthcare, 7/21).
The final rule, released last week, sets criteria for providers to meet to receive Medicaid and Medicare incentive payments included in the 2009 economic stimulus package for the meaningful use of EHRs (Pecquet, “Healthwatch,” The Hill, 7/21).
According to the AMA memo, problems with the final rule include:
AMA noted that CMS followed several of the association’s suggestions in crafting the final rule, including:
AMA said it will work with other stakeholders — including CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT — to help physicians purchase, implement and use EHRs (CMIO, 7/21).
Source: iHealthBeat
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