Health IT and Incentives
A recent excerpt from a blog post at the Touch Consult blog:
All this tells us a few things: 1) hospitals are under the gun to modernize their electronic medical records and 2) they are in a rush to implement ANYTHING that will get them a piece of the incentive pie. Remember, many hospitals receive huge federal subsidies through Medicare and Medicaid. Non compliance will not only put their incentive pay at risk but could potentially risk penalties in the future.
In the end rushing to implement such large systems as EMR’s may prove risky…
