Most Physician Practices Will Lose Money on EHR Systems
From DarkDaily.com
This assumes, I think, that the physician offices actually paid for the initial hardware and software rather than a subsidy/donation/provided by a healthcare system or laboratory as many healthcare systems and laboratories have done in the excess of $44,000 per physician or system.
Research study shows opportunity for clinical laboratories to help client physicians get more value from their electronic health record systems
For the majority of physicians in the United States, implementation of an electronic health record (EHRs) system in their practice may turn out to be a money-losing proposition. That is one prediction made by researchers at the University of Michigan (UM), based on a study they conducted.
Among other things, these findings indicate that progressive clinical laboratories and pathology groups have the opportunity to leverage the interface between their laboratory information system (LIS) and the client physician’s EHR to deliver added value. That’s because pathologists, Ph.D.s, and laboratory scientists know many ways that physicians can improve how they order medical laboratory tests and act upon the results of those tests.
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Source: DarkDaily.com
