Some Hospitals are Falling Behind in Meeting 'Meaningful Use' Criteria and Could be Vulerable to Penalties in 2015.

This article cite progress on the adoption of health information technology (HIT) that meets Medicare’s criteria for “meaningful use.†Through an analysis of Medicare data, the study found a substantial increase in the percentage of hospitals receiving electronic health record incentive payments between 2011 (17.4 percent) and 2012 (36.8 percent). However, critical-access, smaller, and publicly owned or nonprofit hospitals appeared to be at risk of failing to meet the criteria.