KLAS Report Analyzes Impact of Vendor Selection on Successful MU Attestation

While both large and small hospitals using certain vendors have successfully attested to meeting “meaningful use” of electronic health records in the first year of the programs, some hospitals saw a higher return on investment, according to a new report from the research firm KLAS.

The report, Meaningful Use Attestation 2012: Early Birds Take Flight, found that hospitals using health information technology vendors Cerner, CPSI, Epic, and MEDITECH experienced faster implementation and integration timelines, while hospitals using Allscripts, Healthland, HMS, McKesson, and Siemens were slower to take off.

Common barriers providers face while implementing EHRs are reduced productivity, finding ...