Electronic Health Record Companies Stimed By Law’s Language
The “Stimulus” bill contains money for lots of discrete different things. $4 billion as reported on yesterday included money for broadband expansion. There is also $17 billion or so set aside to stimulate the use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) by providing money to doctors to adopt the use of this software. EHR software has seen significant investment from various companies such as GE Healthcare, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems and others. In theory by helping provide efficient management of patient records EHR will save money overall by eliminating unnecessary tests or treatment. EHR will also reduce mistakes as they more accurately record doctor’s orders and treatments. Obviously this government money is seen as spurring large sales of the systems. Unfortunately…
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