After a contentious March 11 Health IT Policy Committee meeting, members of the federal advisory committee voted to approve the Meaningful Use Work Group’s Stage 3 recommendations. After earlier feedback from the Policy Committee, the Meaningful Use Workgroup had eliminated eight of 26 initial recommendations.
After a contentious March 11 Health IT Policy Committee meeting, members of the federal advisory committee voted to approve the Meaningful Use Work Group’s Stage 3 recommendations. Those recommendations, which have been scaled back 30 percent from the initial number, will go to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which will develop a proposed rule by this fall and a final rule sometime in the first half of 2015.
