Medicare's so-called "meaningful use" (MU) regulations for physicians are well intended, but actually are interfering in many ways with the patient-physician relationship.
The MU requirements are long and complicated, but fail to ensure that patients and physicians can readily access care information. Important patient data that was once at the physicians' fingertips is much harder to find. With 100 clicks of a mouse per patient, physicians are spending more time complying with the regulations and less time on patient care.
There is still time to reform and streamline this regulatory process, making meaningful use requirements work for both patients and doctors alike. However, our elected officials in Washington need to act fast.
It's time to modernize the meaningful use program by providing greater flexibility for physicians to submit data. By ensuring that the electronic health record systems are more efficient and up to date, we're also allowing them to communicate with one another.
Make your voice heard in our nation's capital – it's time to break the red tape and stop regulations from interfering with the doctor-patient relationship. Let's let doctors be doctors!
To whom it may concern:
I urge you to stop regulations from interfering with the doctor-patient relationship. It's time to modernize the meaningful use program by providing greater flexibility for physicians to submit data. Let's push the reset button on MU stage 3 so that critical problems with the program can be worked out. Doctors should be spending more time with their patients and less time in front of their computers!
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