IVANS, a national vendor of health information exchanges, conducted a survey of 700 healthcare providers in January 2012. Key findings include:
• Thirty-nine percent of healthcare providers surveyed have no plans to implement stage one of meaningful use;
• Twenty-six percent of providers are eligible for EHR incentives but still have no plans for implementing stage one of meaningful use;
• Thirty-two percent of providers surveyed said budgetary concerns are their biggest challenges;
• Twenty-one percent of providers said the biggest challenge was technology requirements.
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