Biggest obstacles to stage 2 EHR bonuses revealed

About 251,000 physicians and other eligible professionals already have received more than $2.6 billion in payments for the first stage of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesÂ’ electronic health records incentive program. Collecting for stage 2 will rely on two things that, by and large, physicians have so far skipped: getting patients to look at their paperless records and exchanging data with others.Data made available by CMS at an October virtual briefing hosted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society show that objectives related to those two tasks were the most commonly deferred in stage 1. In that stage, physicians

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