Modern Healthcare August 12, 2015
Participation by office-based physicians in the electronic health-record incentive payment program waned significantly in 2014, the program’s fourth year, as clinicians faced system upgrades and tougher requirements.
The number of physicians and other eligible professionals in ambulatory care who attested to having met the requirements of the multibillion-dollar federal program dropped by 12% last year compared with 2013 numbers, based on federal data for the type of EHR system these providers most commonly use.
Meanwhile, less than a third of the office-based providers using complete EHRs managed to step up to the program’s more stringent Stage 2 requirements in 2014.
Epic Systems Corp., the Verona, Wis.-based EHR developer, had by far the largest number of physicians and other customers of...
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