computerized patient record
EHR Marketplace Dynamics
Noting there are over 300 software vendors in the electronic healthcare marketplace with many "market segments (consider: size of practice served, specialties services, inpatient/outpatient) and very 'fuzzy' sources of data here's what one columist surmises:
Physician Compensation
A brief synopsis of how methods to reign in physician compensation have always failed is that nothing has worked.
EHR Incentive Payment
The adoption and implementation of health information technology (HIT) nationally is "For the Future of Health and Care." And thus, the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" (Recovery Act in short) was born. Providing $19 Billion and up to $44,000 per doc to purchase and use the computer in a "meaningful" way seems straightforward, but is it really a Trojan Horse?
