Implementing Health IT
Health IT has been put back into the forefront of the Obama national health care initiative, in part because of Medicare incentives built into the ARRA for health care providers that implement and meaningfully use a health technology system in the next few years. The cost savings is premised in part on the success of the installation and implementation of the information system to be used by health care providers. This article will focus on some of the details of implementing an electronic health records system, along with some of the pitfalls that can keep a project from being completed successfully.
(To read the remainder of this article, click here. Article courtesy of Tim Faith, Attorney At Law, and Tech Law Notes).