When Government Health IT sister site Medical Practice Insider joined forces with online physician community SERMO to gauge exactly where doctors stand on Stage 2 meaningful use attestation, they determined that more than half of responding doctors actually plan not to attest this year.
Of the nearly 2,000 responses, in fact, 55 percent are not moving forward with meaningful use in 2015. And more than a dozen readers commented on the story with thought ranging from “meaningful use is a ruse … a Catch-22,” to the more positive hope that “ONC and CMS come together on a plan that will intervene to keep physicians on the path before retail clinics and pharmaceuticals take patients away from MDs.”
In the meantime, Medical Practice Insider Editor Frank Irving reported on 4 ways to fix meaningful use for practices and other insights compiled from interviews with MGMA senior policy advisor Robert Tennant and Robert Wergin, MD, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
"To think that things will improve with Stage 3, which will not even begin until after the new administration takes office, is irresponsible,” Tennant explained. “Action is needed now to re-engage physicians — those 55 percent who have said they are not going to participate in Stage 2."
What’s your perspective? Too late to get small and mid-size practices back on track toward meaningful use? Or was the reader who commented that “Every doctor who ever used a computer should have realized from day 1 that Meaningful Use will end badly,” onto something?
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