Meaningful Use, Stage Two

The Federal Register will publish proposed regulations for the second stage of electronic health record meaningful-use guidelines on Thursday, according to the national coordinator for health IT, Dr. Farzad Mostashari. There had been speculation that the rules might have been released Tuesday or Wednesday.

Mostashari told an audience at an industry conference in Las Vegas that the proposed regulations were sent today to the Office of the Federal Register, according to ModernHealthcare.com. System interoperability will be central to the new regulations, he said during an education session at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, ModernHealthcare reported.

"We have done whatever we can to increase the flexibility and decrease the burden of these regulations," Mostashari said, according to the report.

A final rule is expected this summer.