Death of EHR "Meaningul Use" imminent. (Hopefully the death of the 'National Programme for Health IT in the HHS' is imminent, too.)

I've written a number of posts on the Orwellian-named "Meaningful Use" experiment with electronic health records systems, imposed upon United States physicians by the Department of Health and Human Services through its Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).See these posts and others retrieved by query link http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/search/label/meaningful%20use:Meaningful Use Final Rule: Have the Administration and ONC Put the Cart Before the Horse on Health IT?Meaningfully Experimental Protocols and Interfaces to Nowhere? Nagging Questions On Healthcare IT RemainScience or Politics? The New England Journal and "The 'Meaningful Use' Regulation for Electronic Health Records""Meaningful Use" not so meaningul: Multiple medical specialty societies now go on record about hazards of EHR misdirection, mismanagement and sloppy hospital computingEHRs and "Meaningful Use": Begging the Question in the New England Journal of MedicineThe Scientific Justification for Meaningul Use, Stage 2: The NWB MethodologyMeaningful Use and the Devil in the Details: A Reader's View  In these posts and others I expressed significant skepticism about the 'Meaningful Use' scheme.But what did I know?  Our betters in government and academia knew far better how to seriously annoy physicians, make more burdensome (and hence more dangerous) the already onerous task of EHR use, and waste the tax money we hard-working Americans pay to an increasingl...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: AMA Andy Slavitt CMS James Madara meaningful use NPfIT ONC Source Type: blogs