This reminds me of the old Wendy’s commercial, “Where’s the beef?”  The comment regards the posting, http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/10/02/meaningful-use-where-is-the-patient/comment-page-1/#comment-98522

I think three years from know we will see that meaningful use proved to be a smokescreen which demonstrated no meaningful use. I also think there is benefit in looking at why healthcare providers have to be offered money and subjected to potential fines to do something that is supposed to be good for them. In turn, why do they then need to be pushed into rolling it out according to someone’s timetable who’s not even a part of their organization.

1. Why are providers running from EHR instead of towards EHR?

2. Why do they have to be paid to implement EHR?

3. Why do they have to be cajoled to roll it out according to somebody else’s time table?