This is interesting as a doc in WA state.
I wonder if their docs and hospitals are still working on the largest piece of legislation to actually hit the docs?
Perhpas unknown to many readers here.....2 words in the original Obamacare billl....”Meaningful Use” ...turned into 800+ pages of rules regulations and penalties regarding implementing and expanding electronic medical records (including having our current proprietal system mandated to communicate with outside systems fo rthe purpose of a real national databank and electronic chart. Thats right....right now most of your doctors and hospitals are working feverishly on “Meaningful Use” and your chart will soon be visible to some bureaucrat in DC.)
So a few months after Obamacare passed, we were handed an 800+ page document called “Meaningful Use” - which spells out the rules, regulations and penalties of how we set up and data mine our EMR. We actually had to develop an entire new committee to deal with this. It is pervasive, intrusive and encompassing.
Back to my original question.....I wonder if the Idaho docs are making the consious decision to start to ignore meaningful use. If they do, and Obamacare eventually somehow suceeds in getting through SCOTUS, then they are seriously screwed.
People you may not know it, but docs are already working hard on Obamacare as we speak. And Im in WA state - one of the states involved in the FL lawsuit in which the judge found the law unconstitutional.
Its weird, I’m working on federal business that my state says is unconstitutional.