Physicians: Questions to Ask About Hospital’s EMR Subsidy
In a sidebar to American Medical News article posted November 23, 2009, Pamela Lewis Dolan, poses 9 questions health care attorneys suggest on considering EMR subsidiary by a hospital. Questions range from interoperability with neighboring hospitals to the basic “Does the system meet your practice’s needs?” Another sidebar explains “What hospitals stand to gain,” explaining ARRA’s requirements for hospitals to receive EHR incentives from Medicare. The main article “Hospitals and EMRs: Stimulating a connection” provides the background on how ”changes in Stark laws allow hospitals to offer EMR-implementation subsidies to physicians” and different hospital approaches including North Shore-Long Island (NY) Jewish Health System and Tufts Medical Center.

See September 29, 2009 post on North Shore-LIJ Health System EMR subsidy on e-Healthcare Marketing.