tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 39

HOME HEALTH: Many HHAs Not Ready For HIT

Care continuity an issue as smaller providers try to get on EHR train.Further insight into the policy debate of health information technology appears in a Commonwealth Fund study reported in Health Affairs. Writing in "Functional Gaps in Attaining a National Health Information Network," researchers evaluated the impact of implementing the nation's HIT several years into the future.The study concluded that financial and personnel constraints will cause smaller providers, such as home health agencies and skilled nursing facilities, to lag behind larger ones. Nevertheless, the study predicts that implementation of electronic health records and CPOE technologies will...

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