Maine, Kentucky and Ohio are among states that have most accelerated the adoption of meaningful use of electronic health records and whose healthcare providers have received incentive payments at a high rate.Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national health IT coordinator, saluted those states and others that have accelerated EHR adoption and celebrated three years of work by those who have received grants, such as state health information exchanges, workforce training and community college programs, model beacon communities and regional health IT extension centers.Health IT representatives from the states described how they relied on various programs