Meaningful use for hospitals: The top ten challenges

This report by CSC Healthcare Group highlights 10 barriers that hospitals must overcome to achieve meaningful use of EHRs, such as integrating decision support into CPOE, managing new types of electronic information, and sharing data with patients and other clinicians electronically. "Achieving meaningful use represents a huge clinical and operational change project on a compressed timeline,' write the report's authors, adding that they "believe that hospitals that learn from the experience of others and succeed on the top ten challenges defined in this white paper will be well on the way to achieving meaningful use."