Hospitals have an extra year before they have to prove that they can use electronic health records to improve patient outcomes, part of the meaningful-use requirements for receiving incentive payments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The federal agency pushed back the deadline for Stage 2 of what’s known as “meaningful use” to 2016, and Stage 3 was bumped a year to 2017.
“Whether the delay is good or bad news really depends on how far along you are,” said Mary…
Hospitals have an extra year before they have to prove that they can use electronic health records to improve patient outcomes, part of the meaningful-use requirements for receiving incentive payments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The federal agency pushed back the deadline for Stage 2 of what’s known as “meaningful use” to 2016, and Stage 3 was bumped a year to 2017.
“Whether the delay is good or bad news really depends on how far along you are,” said Mary…