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CMS should rethink patient engagement requirement for Meaningful Use

One of the most controversial provisions of the proposed rule implementing Stage 2 of Meaningful Use is the requirement that more than 50 percent of an eligible professional's (EP) patients have the

Meaningful Use work group: Patient requirement for e-messaging too high

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's HIT Policy Committee Meaningful Use work group agrees with many, but not all, of the recommendations for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use contained in

Metadata standards inch closer to MU Stage 2 inclusion

Patient privacy and transparency, and how each relates to information exchange, are on the minds of officials at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, who last Friday asked for public

Decision on 2011 lab standards postponed

Yesterday was supposed to be the day we moved closer to a final definition of "meaningful use" of EMRs. But the Health IT Policy Committee, meeting Wednesday in Washington, offered no guidance to HHS