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Medicare is now offering incentives to hospitals and eligible health-care professionals for the use of electronic health records, but Medicaid is doing so in only 11 states. Kentucky is one of them.
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Kentucky is one of 11 states with federal incentives for using electronic records in Medicaid
Medicare is now offering incentives to hospitals and eligible health-care professionals for the use of electronic health records, but Medicaid is doing so in only 11 states. Kentucky is one of them.
Dr. Donald Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the change from paper records will be challenging, but CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology "have taken steps to ease the transition."
The federal programs encourage physicians and hospitals to transition to computerized patient records, because they are believed to improve the quality of health care and patient outcomes. Through Medicare, Mosquera reports physicians can get up to $44,000 over five years by participating. For Medicaid, eligible professionals can receive as much as $63,750 over six years. Under both programs, participating hospitals may profit by millions of dollars, Government Health IT's Mary Mosquera reports.
- Companies Partner To Accelerate Adoption Of Electronic Health Records In Rural Hospitals
Anthelio, a health information-technology support company, and Heartland, a hospital information-systems vendor, have partnered to speed up implementation of electronic health records at rural hospitals so the facilities can get federal incentives, reports...
- Kentucky Center Helps More Than 1,000 Providers Get Electronic Health Records
The Kentucky Regional Extension Center has helped more than 1,000 health care providers transition to electronic health records, with specialists advising providers so they can meet the federal standards of "Meaningful Use." "Quick access to electronic...
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Electronic health records are helping nurses get better health outcomes and are improving nursing care, the first big study on the subject has found. The study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing involved 16,000 nurses at 316...
- Electronic Health Records Are The New Frontier In Health Care
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Just two years ago, the acronym EHR didn't mean much to many people. But since Congress passed the health-care reform law last year, physicians and hospitals have become intimately acquainted with it ? and patients...
- Kentucky Doctors' Offices Are The Least Digitized In The Country; Increase Expected Nationwide
Kentucky has the lowest percentage of doctors' offices who have adopted electronic health record systems, says a survey released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Just 38.1 percent of Kentucky health clinics...