Monitor EMR Straight Talk if you want to know the latest on meaningful use. For example, Government EMR Field of Dreams: What If Physicians Don’t Come? Sounds like e-prescribing - why should I pay to do more work?
Doctors and Hospitals Say Goals on Computerized Records Are Unrealistic (NY Times) - Intermountain Healthcare (Utah) is one of the showcase EHR's but only meets 12 of the 48 meaningful use requirements (23 must be met to get incentive payment). Does this compute?
Unintended Consequences are more than e-iatrogenesis errors.
These unintended consequences are from the blog post Meaningful Use Retrofit: Unintended Consequences:
CMS requires "Some physicians will have to add what they consider non-relevant vital signs to their workflow."
CMS requires "Some specialists will have to report on clinical quality measures (CQMs) that have no relevance to their practices...".
Now that will provide useful data for evidence-based medicine. :-)