Stage 2 Meaningful Use An Ongoing Challenge

Ever since Stage 2 meaningful use was finalized in 2012, critics have decried the strenuous requirements, especially those tied to patient engagement and transitions of care. Despite objections and relatively low attestation rates in 2014, many eligible hospitals and providers now appear to be on target to attest by the end of 2015...

...Thomas Thrower, chief information officer for the Austin Diagnostic Clinic, reports that his organization is in the final stages of preparing for attestation after spending significant time updating software and modifying workflows...

...Austin Diagnostic Clinic also invested considerable resources to achieve the patient-specific education resource core measure. "Our providers historically have been very good about giving educational information to patients," explained Thrower. "But our whole workflow had to change in order to have it counted in the EMR...