This is not PRINCIPALLY about meeting regulations.
It’s principally about collecting more money for the same service. Which is easy to do with a 2nd or third-generation EHR.
The dirty little secret is that the majority of attending physicians in the hospital are inept using EMR. Clinical notes are cut and paste fictions. Orders are not written. Physicians spend more time at the computer than they do at the bedside. Patient care has suffered and will continue to suffer for a generation.