"Getting Ready for Meaningful Use: Positioning Your Facility to Meet the Guidelines."

Since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 first outlined the incentives providers would be able to receive for "meaningful use" of certified electronic health record technology, hospitals, physicians and other healthcare organizations have been gearing up and trying to figure out what the law will mean for them.

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Those that are farthest along in the journey toward meaningful use are not necessarily the usual suspects like large integrated systems. Just ask Darrel Morris, the CEO of Drumright Regional Hospital, 40 miles west of Tulsa, Okla. Drumright is proof that even a small, rural critical access hospital can take the lead in implementing meaningful healthcare information technology improvements.

Read the full article at Becker's Hospital Review.