5 Nagging Questions About Meaningful Use Stage 2

New technology, we generally assume, is supposed to make us more comfortable by instituting convenience into our lives. Yet new technology that comes with deadlines attached can have exactly the opposite effect.

Case in point: EHRs and the meaningful use program.

Electronic health records are pitched as the road to efficiency and better care, but judging by a great deal of commentary lately, the deadlines are keeping a number of questions alive and well.

Here are 5 such matters: