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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Actually, the "meaningful use" program was in place before Obamacare and is not part of it. Simply put, the program was set up as an incentive/subsidy to the requirement that all physicians utilize an electronic record by 2017. The government was willing to help defray the cost, but only if the physician could "prove" he was using the EMR.
That's the theory. Of course, as usual, once the bureaucrats got a hold of it the criteria by which "meaningful use" was determined became more complex and convoluted to the point that a medical office ends up hiring a "meaningful use" consultant to make sure the criteria are met. Just another example of how a halfway decent idea morphs into a surrealistic nightmare ten times as big, ten times as complicated, and ten times as expensive as it needs be.
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So......
Still wondering......
On a scale of 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), how "
meaningful" is any of this for that pesky thing called "patient care"??