Special Report: EHRs and the right way to transform your practice
Effective Dec 17, 2009
Published Dec 17, 2009
You'll get the chance to transform the way your practice runs in the next five years, thanks to $34 billion in Medicare incentive funds for "meaningful use" of electronic health record (EHR) systems starting in 2015, coupled with government plans to impose heavy fines when you fail to achieve meaningful use or stick with paper records.
Adopting an EHR alone is a massive and costly undertaking. But some experts believe you'll also need an online patient portal - a suite of Internet-based software that connects your records to your patients - to achieve meaningful use.
Unfortunately, patient portals are almost always sold separately from EHRs, leaving you and most of your peers, who have neither an EHR nor a patient portal, with a huge decision on which component to implement first and precious little time to decide.
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