Only four hospitals have achieved Stage 2 meaningful use of electronic health records seven months into the reporting period for hospitals enrolled in the federal EHR incentive-payment program, a CMS official reported today.
Among physicians and other eligible professionals—who are four months into their reporting year—only 50 have attested to Stage 2 meaningful use, said Elizabeth Myers, policy and outreach lead at the CMS’ Office of eHealth Standards and Services, during a presentation to the agency’s Health Information Technology Policy Committee.
Although the requirements for achieving stage two seems to have slowed the pace of meaningful use attestation, the actual use of EHR systems is up significantly and there can be little doubt the inventive program has been a key motivating factor.