The new reality of meaningful use

摘要

In 2009, when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was unveiled, healthcare industry observers knew it was big. And it included something the industry had never seen before in the form of a program that would soon become known as "meaningful use." It took more than a year for the final meaningful use regulation to appear. But when it did emerge in 2010, the HIM profession had its work cut out for it.It's only been a few years. Most people have cars and appliances that are older than ARRA. But it is striking, in retrospect, how a fundamental change in the landscape—a federal program to pay providers incentives for the use of electronic health records—has quickly become a familiar reality.