HCPro August 3, 2015
Congress has taken notice of healthcare providers’ woes and frustrations dealing with electronic health records (EHRs) and lawmakers are determined to work out a solution that promotes progress in health technology as well as better care for patients.
Federal incentives to encourage physicians and hospitals to adopt EHRs have begun to dry up as CMS winds down its Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. Total Medicare bonus payments to eligible professionals and hospitals have decreased and will last through 2016, but effective in 2015, CMS has started imposing penalties on participants who don’t achieve meaningful use with their EHRs.
That, combined with the costs to implement and maintain EHRs as well as burdensome federal regulations (according to physicians), is calling...
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