CHIME: Providers Need More Time For Meaningful Use

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) insists that hospitals and physicians need more time to prepare their electronic health records to meet Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements. The organization also raised concerns regarding the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service's (CMS) varying approach to clinical quality measures (CQMs), and has suggested a series of changes that includes everything from developing more precise language to lowering the threshold for meeting certain quality measures.  (Source: InformationWeek Healthcare)  [Read article]