Electronic Health Records: An International Perspective on "Meaningful Use"

This paper was published by the Commonwealth Fund in the US and describes the extent of meaningful use  of EHRs in three countries with very high levels of health information technology adoption—Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden.  The United states is endeavouring to The U.S. has now embarked on a major effort to achieve "meaningful use" of health information technology by clinicians and hospitals and is hoping to take some lessons from these international examples.