Final Medicare & Medicaid EHR Meaningful Use Rules Permit Deferrals, Exclusions

On July 16, 2010, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released final rules for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record (EHR) meaningful use initiative program. The rules for the Stage 1 criteria of meaningful use permit eligible professionals and eligible hospitals the option to defer some objectives/measures and to permit exclusions for the applicability of some objectives/measures...