Against what seemed to be insurmountable odds, President Obama has signed a healthcare reform bill. While the full impact of the bill won’t be known for a while, two things are already clear about this legislation’s effect on physicians. There [...]
Archive for March, 2010
AMA Aims to Deter Purchasing of Failure-Prone EMRs
The American Medical Association (AMA)—along with 95 other physician societies and organizations representing a majority of physicians, including both state and specialty professional groups—submitted a letter to CMS, dated March 15, 2010. On page two, in the introduction to the [...]
MGMA Confirms Productivity Loss with Government’s EMR Program
What struck me at last week’s annual meeting of HIMSS (Health Information and Management Systems Society) was the conspicuous absence of conversation about the effect of the ARRA legislation on physician productivity—there was hardly a mention of the subject throughout [...]
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