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Get Moving to Catch Early EHR Meaningful Use Incentives
Hospitals with electronic health records (EHR) may be eligible for meaningful use incentives as early as October 2010, and physicians follow soon after. What if a provider is hoping to take advantage of the incentives, but is still fully paper-based? Waiting for the release of final rules on the incentive program and EHR certification before moving forward may not be wise.
Providers should begin by looking into the reasons their facility doesn't have many of the components that make up an EHR, or lacks an electronic system altogether. For example, if providers haven't begun to invest in a system because of high up-front costs, they may be able to obtain funding that can help.
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