Thirty-nine medical societies, including the American Medical Association, co-signed a letter to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, expressing deep concerns that the requirements for meaningful use are burdensome for many physicians.
The professional societies feel physicians lack the proper product availability and financial resources to achieve interoperability and information-sharing capabilities. Additionally, the meaningful use incentive program requires physicians to collect and report various patient data points that they otherwise do not collect.
In the letter, the societies outline recommendations to make meaningful use requirements a better fit for physicians, including an exclusion category through which physicians, particularly specialists, can opt out of a meaningful use requirement if it has "little relevance to the physician's routine practice."
Read the letter to ONC from the medical societies (pdf).
Read other coverage about reactions to meaningful use:
- AMIA Releases Position Statement on Meaningful Use
- Professional Associations Release Comments on Stage 2 Meaningful Use
- CHIME to Government: Carefully Assess Stage 1 Before Implementing Stage 2 Meaningful Use
The professional societies feel physicians lack the proper product availability and financial resources to achieve interoperability and information-sharing capabilities. Additionally, the meaningful use incentive program requires physicians to collect and report various patient data points that they otherwise do not collect.
In the letter, the societies outline recommendations to make meaningful use requirements a better fit for physicians, including an exclusion category through which physicians, particularly specialists, can opt out of a meaningful use requirement if it has "little relevance to the physician's routine practice."
Read the letter to ONC from the medical societies (pdf).
Read other coverage about reactions to meaningful use:
- AMIA Releases Position Statement on Meaningful Use
- Professional Associations Release Comments on Stage 2 Meaningful Use
- CHIME to Government: Carefully Assess Stage 1 Before Implementing Stage 2 Meaningful Use