AHA survey: Only 2 percent of hospitals could have met meaningful use last year

August 30, 2010 by MassDevice staff

A small fraction of U.S. hospitals reported using electronic medical records software last year and even fewer would have met new requirements for "meaningful use" of the systems in 2009, according to an American Hospital Assn. survey.

The group's poll of about 3,100 hospitals between March and November 2009 showed that fewer than 12 percent used EMRs and just 2 percent of those could have passed the meaningful use standards announced in July.

"These findings underscore the fact that the transition to a digital health care system is likely to be a long one," the report's author's wrote.

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