AMA pleased that Medicare plans to modify meaningful use program

"The American Medical Association welcomes the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) announcement of plans to address some of the issues we have raised with the Meaningful Use program through rulemaking aimed at requirements for meeting Meaningful Use in 2015.

"We are eager to see the proposed rule as we have been working with CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) offering solutions to improve the incentive program for quite some time. Most recently, we provided recommendations for revamping the electronic health record (EHR) certification process, a blueprint for fixing the Meaningful Use program and a framework for improving EHR usability.