Meaningful Use (MU) incentive payments have been the top driver of physicians' transition to electronic health records (EHRs) over the past five years, according to a new data brief from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. In particular, the results showed that 59 percent of physicians had adopted a "MU" EHR; another 22 percent had planned to adopt an EHR or adopted an "other" EHR. Sixty-two percent of physicians who had adopted an EHR said that the incentives were a "major" influence in their decision to do so. Of those physicians who had no plans to adopt an EHR, two-thirds (67 percent) cited lack of money, time and staff as their reasons to stick with paper records. Forty-three percent cited privacy and security concerns. >> Read the full story from FierceEMR