A third of respondents to a quarterly survey of healthcare CIOs say they expect their organizations will qualify for stimulus funding within the first year of a federal program for implementing electronic health records, according to a CHIME news release.
An additional 58 percent of CIOs reported that they expect their organizations will qualify during stage 1 but possibly not until late in federal fiscal years 2012 or 2013. However, a comparison of results from two previous CHIME surveys suggests a continued decline in optimism in qualifying for funding within the first six months of meaningful use. Only 7.5 percent of respondents expected to qualify for funding by April 1, 2011, compared with 15 percent of respondents to the same question in Nov. 2010 and 28 percent of CIOs who responded to the first CHIME survey in Aug. 2010.
Among meaningful use challenges, capturing and submitting data for quality measures has become the most frequently cited concern of CIOs responding to the survey. Perhaps most notably, more than half of CIO respondents say they still have lingering questions about the program, nearly six months after the Oct. 1, 2010, start of the stimulus funding program.
Read the CHIME news release about CIOs' confidence in meeting meaningful use.
Read other coverage about meaningful use:
- Ambulatory EMRs May Not Achieve Meaningful Use, Despite High Levels of Confidence
- HHS Urges Private Sector to Help Solve Health IT Problems
- ONC Panel Pushes for Greater Transparency in Providers' Measures for Health Data Security
An additional 58 percent of CIOs reported that they expect their organizations will qualify during stage 1 but possibly not until late in federal fiscal years 2012 or 2013. However, a comparison of results from two previous CHIME surveys suggests a continued decline in optimism in qualifying for funding within the first six months of meaningful use. Only 7.5 percent of respondents expected to qualify for funding by April 1, 2011, compared with 15 percent of respondents to the same question in Nov. 2010 and 28 percent of CIOs who responded to the first CHIME survey in Aug. 2010.
Among meaningful use challenges, capturing and submitting data for quality measures has become the most frequently cited concern of CIOs responding to the survey. Perhaps most notably, more than half of CIO respondents say they still have lingering questions about the program, nearly six months after the Oct. 1, 2010, start of the stimulus funding program.
Read the CHIME news release about CIOs' confidence in meeting meaningful use.
Read other coverage about meaningful use:
- Ambulatory EMRs May Not Achieve Meaningful Use, Despite High Levels of Confidence
- HHS Urges Private Sector to Help Solve Health IT Problems
- ONC Panel Pushes for Greater Transparency in Providers' Measures for Health Data Security