84 Percent of MU Certified Products are not used for Incentive Funds

Bottom Line: 84 Percent of MU Certified Products are not used for Incentive Funds

Findings

• CMS published the number of providers and their MU Certified Products 
• 8/10/2012 
  
  Steven Posnack ‏@HealthIT_Policy
  If ya didn't know: public use file(PUF) w/ MU attestation by vendor was refreshed on 8/7/12 with data through 6/30/12.
• ONC Published List of  Meaningful Use Certified products are listed 

Analysis

• 532 different products has been used in the 77,625 MU Attestations
• 3,372 different Meaningful Use Certified products are listed on the Certified Health IT Product List
• 2,535 Ambulatory
• 837 Inpatient
• The top two products for MU Certification are
• EpicCare Ambulatory - Core EMR
• 15,999 MU Attestations,  20.61% of all attestations
• eClinicalWorks
• 6,080  MU Attestations, 7.83% of all attestations
• Majority of Products (84%) are used for something other than Meaningful Use Incentive Payments
• 84% of products have adopted MU Capabilities regardless of receiving incentive funds.  

Preliminary Conclusions

• Only 16% of products required incentive funds in order to adopt ONC Recommend Health IT Standards
• The majority of products in the Health IT market place were influenced by ONC without receiving incentive funding

Works Cited

Department of Health and Human Services. (2012, 01 24). CMS Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program, electronic health record products used for attestation. Retrieved 08 10, 2012, from Health Data.gov: http://www.data.gov/communities/node/81/data_tools/6375#

Office of National Coordinator. (n.d.). Certified Healh IT Product List. Retrieved 08 10, 2012, from http://oncchpl.force.com/ehrcert/EHRProductSearch