EHR donation programs violate state law
Washington's attorney general has dealt a blow to electronic health record adoption in the state, ruling that a donation of money by a clinical lab to physicians to defray the cost of an EHR violates the state's anti-rebate law when the donations are made to physicians who refer specimens to those labs.
2013 will be a year of change for EHR industry
Well, 2012 certainly was a banner year for electronic health records systems, with ever-increasing provider adoption and the release of the final regulations for Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use incentive program.
What will the coming year bring? Some developments are a given. We all know that EHR adoption will continue to accelerate as we get closer to the penalty phase of the incentive program. More providers will access EHRs via their smrtphones and iPads. EHR vendors will consolidate. And cloud computing will be more prevalent.
But here are a few 2013 predictions that may be a little less obvious. Read more...
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