DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 8 (August)

NPPs can help doctors reach meaningful use even though they won’t get incentive money

Your non-physician practitioners (NPPs) aren’t eligible to collect the $18,000 first-round electronic health record (EHR) incentive payment, but they can help your physicians get that cash by boosting workflow and assisting with meaningful use measures.

“NPPs help with many of the list-based measures, they help with managing patients and they help fill the gap … when physicians are learning EHR and getting used to that workflow,” says Christopher Tashjian, MD, a family practitioner in Ellsworth, Wis., who has already earned the federal incentive money.

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