Pending MU rules making hospitals, EHR vendors sweat

The process has been repeated time and again: Regulators issue proposed rulemaking, stakeholders comment, a final version manifests. So what, this time, has the industry concerned in the case of two pieces of meaningful use? Timing. And there's precious little of it left before hospitals and vendors find themselves in a real bind. Both healthcare providers and electronic health record vendors, in fact, are anxiously waiting for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to release final rule changes to meaningful use regulations for 2015 through 2016, expected before Labor Day – in addition to final rules for meaningful use Stage 3 for 2017 and beyond, widely anticipated to drop before year's end.?