Meaningful Silence Deafening for Health IT Industry

[Commentary] For the health IT industry, the silence is deafening. There's little that can be said about the looming release of meaningful use definitions for electronic health records that will be made public in about a month. There's growing concern among hospitals about the challenge before them in implementing clinical record systems on a fairly fast track. Providers still are wary of how the reimbursement plan will work and whether it will be equitable.