Year: 2013
Type: letter
Abstract: I read with interest DesRoches and colleagues' article (1) on assessing physician use of EHRs and whether such use was meaningful, as outlined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.The fundamental flaw in the authors' research question (and in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' misguided use of this metric) is that the meaningful use criteria pertain to patient care, but the commercially available EHRs are invariably designed to optimize billing and insurance reimbursement.Thus, the finding that fewer than 1 in 10 physicians reported being able to use their systems to meet meaningful use criteria is hardly surprising.
Source: Annals of Internal Medicine
Author: Philip A. Verhoef
Institution: University of Chicago
Language: English
Subfield: Health Information Management
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1965673862