Posted by barbarahales

Rewarding healthcare facilities and physicians with reimbursement incentives to convert records to an electronic system and go paperless might have gone by the wayside with Medicare reimbursement declines. So, other incentives may come into play….like “threats”.  Adopt electronic medical records or lose your license to practice medicine.  This is what Massachusetts is currently looking to [...]

Posted by barbarahales

According to the International Health Policy Survey, polling ten thousand primary care physicians in 11 nations, the United States lags behind other countries in implementation of health information technology and  decreasing the overall access to care. The decline in IT and primary physicians is directly lowering the quality of healthcare here. Only 46% of U.S. [...]