Connecting All Your Docs at ‘Most Wired Hospitals’
Alden Solovoy reports in the September 2009 issue of American Hospitals Association’s H&HN–Hospitals & Health Networks “ The majority of the Most Wired (hospitals and hospital systems) do not distinguish between employed and independent physicians in their integration efforts, with 57 percent subsidizing both types of physician practices.” 93% of the 2009 Most Wired provide some EHR support to at least one category of practices. Story includes useful charts plus quotes from John Halamka, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, #1 Most Wired; Daniel Barchi, Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA, #7 of 100 Most Wired; John Schrenker, Lakeside Health System, Brockport, NY, one of the 2009 Most Improved; and Jerry Peter, Lakeside Hospital System, Painesville, Ohio, one of the 2009 Most Improved.
H&HN Lists of Most Wired, Most Improved, Most Wired–Small and Rural, and Most Wireless. Published in July 2009.
See Sept 29 post on e-Healthcare Marketing about North Shore-LIJ subsidizing up to 7,000 physicians.
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