Market Challenges
Many are beginning to question ONC’s role in the further promotion of EHR adoption and use. Healthcare organizations of all sizes are struggling with a rapidly shifting landscape that is increasingly pushing such initiatives as compliance to ONC’s meaningful use program further back on their list of priorities. Despite the efforts of new ONC director, Dr. Karen DeSalvo, to redirect ONC’s current programs, many factors are working against her office and ONC’s influence in the market will continue to wane.