HHS announced an easing of the timeline for hospitals and eligible providers to meet Stage II of the government EHR incentive program. This makes State II compliance easier for those providers that qualify for State I in 2011.
However, it is too late now to buy EMR software, use it for 90 days and qualify for 2011 incentives. I suspect few providers will actually qualify for incentives in 2011 (estimated at 5%).

This means that the overall impact of EHR / EMR demand is still not enough.