Consensus of Healthcare IT Experts
“If providers delay their acquisition of an EHR until the federal government issues a definition of “meaningful use,” they’re wasting valuable time,” reported Jack Beaudoin, VP, Content, Healthcare IT News on May 11, 2009

“That’s the consensus of healthcare IT experts who regularly take the pulse of the Washington D.C. bureaucracy.”

Mark Leavitt, MD, president and CEO of the Certification Commission for Health Information and Technology said “The major parameters are actually written into the bill…It has to be a certified EHR, it has to include e-prescribing, it has to be able to exchange information and it has to be able to report quality data.”"