New and improved meaningful use

The long-awaited final rule to use revealed yesterday with much pomp and circumstance in a rather unusual ceremony marked Interestingly also the first public appearance of Dr. Berwick as CMS administrator. Final rule is contained in a 846 page document. Join that is CMS judgment 228 pages final EHR certification rule at the same time issued by ONC. Luckily for all of us scrambling to figure out what has changed, Dr. Blumenthal a summary published in NEJM (recommended). Already many articles and dissertations published and undoubtedly many, many more are written in the coming days and weeks analyze each change and each nuance of the new and now authentic, meaningful use. For those who prefer a image larger and low resolution Don ' t care much about nuances, here are the main changes to the old version use meaningful.

The good
Was far from the largest relaxation to divide into two groups original 25 measures (23 hospitals)

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