DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2009 Issue 8 (August)

Case study: How a two-doctor practice implemented EHR

You've probably heard it before - the switch from paper to electronic medical records will hit small practices the hardest. Systems are too complex, some say. Another argument is that small practices don't have the resources - and still won't even if they get the financing for EMRs to help them qualify for tens of thousands of dollars per physician in federal Medicare or Medicaid subsidies starting in 2011. There's the fear that an initial slowdown in patient volume often caused by installation of EMR would cripple business.

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