The Department of Health and Human Services has released its final rule on “meaningful use” of electronic health records with the goal of making it easier for physicians to comply.

But critics objected that the proposed rule was too hard for physicians to comply with and would not give them enough incentive to buy an electronic health record (EHR) system.

In order to make things more flexible in the final rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) — which was in charge of writing the regulations — reduced the number of core requirements physicians and hospitals must meet during the first two years of EHR implementation.

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