Medicare's new system for paying physicians will kill off the so-called “meaningful use” regime the government has used for the past five years to judge whether providers deserved to be rewarded for using electronic health records.
But Medicare will still hold doctors accountable for incorporating information technology into their practices. And clinicians may still struggle to clear the bar, even though the new law and the proposed rule the CMS issued last week have made significant efforts to make the new framework less rigid and more valuable.
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