Senate health chair: Let’s not repeat ‘terrifying’ meaningful use rollout

Becker's Healthcare May 8, 2019
Emily Rappleye

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate health committee, urged HHS to move slowly with new interoperability rules, in the committee’s hearing May 8 on implementing the EHR provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act.

“The best way to get to where you want to go is not by going too far, too fast,” Mr. Alexander said in prepared remarks. “I want to make sure we learn lessons from implementing Meaningful Use Stage 3, which was, in the words of one major hospital, ‘terrifying.'”

Mr. Alexander praised the extended comment period for the two rules, which will...

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