Healthcare DIVE November 28, 2017
Meg Bryant

Dive Brief:

  • When it comes to hospital Meaningful Use performance, who you choose as your EHR vendor makes a difference, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
  • The researchers looked at the relationship between vendor and hospital performance on six Stage 2 MU criteria and found “significant associations” between specific vendors and level of performance.
  • Epic users performed significantly better on five of the six criteria. However, results for other vendors were mixed, with some showing notably poorer performance on multiple criteria.

Dive Insight:

The study’s authors claim the research is the first to look at the relationship between EHR vendor and hospital meaningful use performance.

The criteria studied included...

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