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In this podcast, Jason Fortin, senior advisor with Impact Advisors says that what didn’t happen with meaningful use had an influence on health IT leaders in 2013. Fortin says, as an industry, the year showed all health IT stakeholders that the government is going to keep pushing on with meaningful use.
In many ways, 2013 was about what didn’t happen, rather than what did. Or, it was about what happened in 2012 rather than what happened in 2013.
What didn’t happen was the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) did not give eligible professionals and eligible hospitals a delay or extension for Stage 2 that would provide relief for the 2014 penalties. What did happen was many mapped out and acted on IT strategies, based on the Stage 2 final rule in August of 2012 and the Supreme Court Affordable Care Act ruling in June of that year.
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