The Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology just released their long-awaited “meaningful use” final regulations yesterday, July 13. These final regulations fortunately contain less demanding and more flexible requirements (as compared to the proposed requirements published in January) for physicians and hospital providers to qualify for the initial round of financial incentives to be used to adopt, fully implement, and meaningfully use electronic health records (EHR).

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