[lbhnact]

Without bickering over MU requirements, you'd probably note that MU has been almost entirely ineffective at solving actual care problems with data exchange.

Of 50 state exchanges, most have collapsed, with only occasional use of the ad-hoc implementations and networks that remain. And people dying everyday while vendors like ECW get wrist-slaps for lying to CMS about their MU compliance.

-http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/eclinicalworks-pay-155-...

[nwhatt]

Agreed - there is still a huge hurdle of connecting all the fiefdoms of healthcare - my colleague calls it the connectivity problem: https://www.redoxengine.com/blog/the-connectivity-problem

When someone asks us to integrate with a small EHR, the first thing we look at is ONC certification. We at least know that they meet some base level of functionality.