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Many Hospitals & Clinics Risk Not Qualifying for 2011 Federal Incentive Payments
Colleagues,
As reported in iHealthBeat ... Most clinics and some hospitals are behind in their efforts to switch to electronic health record systems to qualify for payments under the 2009 federal economic stimulus package, according to a new report from HIMSS Analytics, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's research unit ...
...Under the stimulus package, health care providers who demonstrate "meaningful use" of EHRs will qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments ranging from $44,000 to $63,000 for individual providers and over $2 million for hospitals, beginning in October 2010 ...
...According to the HIMSS Analytics report, 30% to 40% of U.S. hospitals could be at risk financially and operationally for not meeting the meaningful use criteria..
...Meanwhile, more than 50% of independent clinics in the U.S. are at risk for not meeting meaningful use criteria...
... John Hoyt, vice president of health care organizational services at HIMSS, said the survey shows that a digital divide remains between larger and urban hospitals and smaller and rural facilities ...
Read on at: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/5/24/some-hospitals-clinic...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in iHealthBeat ... Most clinics and some hospitals are behind in their efforts to switch to electronic health record systems to qualify for payments under the 2009 federal economic stimulus package, according to a new report from HIMSS Analytics, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's research unit ...
...Under the stimulus package, health care providers who demonstrate "meaningful use" of EHRs will qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments ranging from $44,000 to $63,000 for individual providers and over $2 million for hospitals, beginning in October 2010 ...
...According to the HIMSS Analytics report, 30% to 40% of U.S. hospitals could be at risk financially and operationally for not meeting the meaningful use criteria..
...Meanwhile, more than 50% of independent clinics in the U.S. are at risk for not meeting meaningful use criteria...
... John Hoyt, vice president of health care organizational services at HIMSS, said the survey shows that a digital divide remains between larger and urban hospitals and smaller and rural facilities ...
Read on at: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/5/24/some-hospitals-clinic...
ENJOY!
CC
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