Healthcare DIVE November 28, 2017
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...