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Very … It’s Imperative
By Staff Reporters
Emergency physician Shadowfax is recruiting doctors for his hospital, and balances the typical choices one must make balancing clinical knowledge versus interpersonal skills.
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One deal-breaker is the lack of modern computer skills. Unfortunately, in this modern age, if an employee can’t use a computer effectively … read more!
A lack of computer skills may make doctors unemployable
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Here is the link for a new article from The American Journal of Medicine entitled, “Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study” by Himmelstein, et al.
The authors conclude that current hospital computing has minimal impact on quality and no impact on cost.
Click to access AJM10662S200.pdf
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Debra
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Hospital Subsidies Add New Twist to eMR Selection by Doctors
Availability of government stimulus money, combined with hospitals being allowed to finance portions of physicians’ electronic medical record systems, could make EMR adoption a veritable bargain. Or, the stimulus money could make hospital systems less eager to help pay for your eMR, figuring that government funds will instead. Either way, the possibility of combining two avenues of eMR funding has added a twist to the economic picture for physicians deciding what, when and whether to buy.
Doctors can get a maximum of $44,000 in funds from the federal economic stimulus package for adopting a certified eMR system that meets the government’s “meaningful use” standards. How much physicians get in stimulus funds will be based on the percentage of their practice that is made up of Medicare or Medicaid patients. Hospitals can get their own share of stimulus funds, but the amount depends on how they’re connected with physicians.
Source: Pamela Lewis Dolan, AM News [11/30/09]
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Judy
From a macro-economic perspective, stimulus funds, or easy money from a third party either leads to [1] inflation in the short term, and/or [2] poor quality in the longer term.
Let’s hope this doesn’t happen with eMRs, but I fear it surely will.
Edgar
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