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Meaningful Use

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Survey: 85% of Health Providers Confident for 'Meaningful Use'

About 85% of health care providers believe their electronic health record products will help them qualify for "meaningful use" under the federal economic stimulus package, according to a new survey from research firm KLAS, Healthcare IT News reports.

For the report, KLAS interviewed more than 1,400 health care providers about their experiences with EHR products from 26 vendors. The survey asked the providers whether they thought their EHRs would meet the preliminary meaningful use recommendations issued by the Health IT Policy Committee in July (Monegain, Healthcare IT News, 1/6).

Survey Findings

The survey found that health care providers using athenahealth, Epic and NextGen EHR products had the highest confidence that their systems would meet the meaningful use requirements.

Providers using Amazing Charts and SRSsoft technologies reported the lowest confidence in their EHR systems.

The report also noted that many respondents are concerned that their EHR systems will fall short of the meaningful use requirements for:

  • Health data exchange;
  • Patient access to medical records; and
  • Quality reporting (Goedert, Health Data Management, 1/6).

Reader Comments:
  • 4
  • 03/12/2010
  • Norman Eisenberg

Meaningful Use... what is it really? Does it protect the patient, does is speed up their care and treatment and help in the diagnosis, or is it for the betterment of the medical society in general so they can get extra money from the government? To me it seems that the more rules you put into play the more chances there are to screw things up.Why not say what you mean in as few words as possible? Simple, the KISS principal always worked for me and yet if you look at Obama's first law the HR-1, over 1500 pages that could have been said in about 25.
Something that can catch fire an burn can be called flammable if not it is inflammable right?So why not say, if you do this you get that, and if you don't sorry Charlie you don't get it. Enough of the double talk in medicine and Government.. it is there so the public never really knows what is happening and going on. Pssst it is the public that is going to rule, to overturn all the politicians soon, so you better be ready, we are coming .

  • 3
  • 01/07/2010
  • Nancy Vinci

Susan, We are currently in the process of selecting a vendor. NextGen is one of the two we are evaluating. Please give me your experiences with their customer service or anyone else out there that can offer words of advice. Thanks

  • 2
  • 01/06/2010
  • Michael Milne

SRSsoft's CEO, Evan Steele, has published on his blog an analysis of why most will not collect. Many of the non-Klas surveyed EMRs, which is the by far the majority of EMRs, believe few doctors will collect. The history is with PQRI and e-prescribing incentives very few collected not because their software couln't cope but because the information to input was too onerous in time and the reporting too complex and government incompentence in payment management!

Amazing Charts is just too cheap and simple of an EMR to seriously support "meaningful use" reporting.

  • 1
  • 01/06/2010
  • Susan Dobra

If NextGen wants to keep their status as inspiring a high level of confidence in their EHR system, they need to address their customer service issues. Multiple emails and phone calls to NextGen have gone unanswered.



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