Impact of the meaningful use incentive program on electronic health record adoption by US children's hospitals
Conclusions Children's hospitals are implementing pediatric-focused features, but a sizable proportion still finds their systems suboptimal for pediatric care. The meaningful use incentive program is failing to promote and in some cases delaying uptake of pediatric-oriented features.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Category: Information Technology Authors: Nakamura, M. M., Harper, M. B., Castro, A. V., Yu, F. B., Jha, A. K. Tags: Research and Application Source Type: research
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