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Hospitals recoup EHR costs with doc bonus 'assignments'
Hospitals providing electronic health record systems to eligible physicians can defray some of their costs by having the physicians agree to forward, or "assign" their incentive bonus payments back
Less than 3 percent of children's hospitals have 'comprehensive' EHRs
Even as HIMSS Analytics was announcing this week that Children's Hospital Boston had received an award for achieving Stage 7--the highest level--on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model, a
GAO: EHRs improve care coordination, quality at large health systems
EHRs can, in fact, improve the quality of care, at least at large, integrated delivery systems, says a new report from the Government Accountability Office. But even major provider organizations
Build multiple levels of value into an EMR to produce ROI
Want a return on the sizable investment in an EMR? View the technology not as merely a replacement for paper charts, but as the basis for creating new capabilities within the organization, such as
Incoming Siemens IT chief Glaser: Era of clinician resistance to EMR 'behind us'
Declaring the era of clinician resistance to IT "behind us," John Glaser, who is leaving his job as CIO of Partners HealthCare System in Boston to become CEO of Siemens Healthcare's Health Services
AAFP's Waldren calls meaningful use, quality reporting the foundations of payment reform
Primary-care practices, if you're thinking about not adopting an EMR, you could be putting yourselves in a very bad position for the inevitable future transition to a quality-based reimbursement
Meaningful use of EMRs might be the 'Trojan Horse' of real health reform
I've complained plenty in this space over healthcare reform really only being insurance reform, though I did talk in a recent FierceHealthIT column about some nuggets of true reform contained in the
Survey: More small physician offices adopting EMRs, but not necessarily for stimulus money
Reimbursement concerns are driving EMR adoption among small physician practices more than the promise of federal incentive payments. Of 269 practices with 10 or fewer physicians that took a survey
EMR subsidies might help, but who gains from efficiency savings?
The law of unintended consequences is a nasty little bugger that seems to rear its ugly head quite often in health care. As so many of our dear readers know, the great paradox in health IT,
