Reaching for the sky.

The article speculates on the criteria of the U.S. federal incentive program for the meaningful use of electronic health-record systems as providers await the official release of the final rule for Stage 2 criteria in summer 2012. According to an advisory panel to the federal Health IT Policy Committee, there should be an upper limit short of perfection, or less than 100% of whatever metric is being measured. Work group members reportedly let stand on their recommendation of 80%.