OMB Reviews Final Rule On Stage Two Meaningful Use Flexibility

The White House Office of Management and Budget is reviewing a regulation to give doctors and hospitals more time to meet the second stage of requirements for becoming “meaningful users” of electronic medical records. Providers hope CMS took to heart their advice that they be given another year of flexibility because about 1 percent of eligible physicians attested to stage two meaningful use requirements, according to CMS data released Aug. 6. CMS finished writing the stage two meaningful use regulation...