In a recently published article in Healthcare IT News, HCI's Chief Medical Information Officer, Dr, William Bria lent his perspective on the Meaning Use (MU) topic.
Meaningful care, not just meaningful use
February 20, 2015
Enough talk about information technology's use in the practice of medicine.
Health IT must become the practice of medicine.
Industry rhetoric revolves around deadlines, delays and debates about health IT's benefits, largely because of the federal government's Meaningful Use requirements for EHRs. But we should be discussing health IT's life altering—or saving—potential to provide Meaningful Care instead of deliberating Meaningful Use, which has become stigmatized as an intrusive mandate focused on funding rather than care.
To read more of the Healthcare IT News article, please click here.
