I wouldn't get too excited. Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of the Federal government actually paying out this incentive? I say this because I have medical professionals in my own family, and at least from their experience and from every physician they have spoken to - the incentive is promised again and again, but never materializes despite physicians and medical professionals jumping through the myriad hoops. Like many government incentives, it looks great on paper - but actually getting the thing is entirely different story.
Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono (YC W11) iPad App
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Re: Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono (YC W11) iPad App
#52Nice going, guys. As a med student, this sort of stuff really excites me. It seems like the government is willing to incentivize the adoption of electronic mobile technologies in clinical practice. To all who are making quips about the $44k incentive: the amount of money that is spent on resolving logistical, administrative, and medical errors because of disorganized, incomplete health records, yearly, is astronomica…
Unfortunately most institutions choose to simply automate their bad processes. The studies that were originally done to justify this incentive were based on hospitals such as Mayo that are simply better hospitals. Their use of electronic systems is not the reason why they are better.
Even so, implementing EHRs in a way that qualifies as meaningful use still improves patient care for the worst institutions.
Re: Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono (YC W11) iPad App
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately most institutions choose to simply automate their bad processes. The studies that were originally done to justify this incentive were based on hospitals such as Mayo that are simply better hospitals. Their use of electronic systems is not the reason why they are better.
Even so, implementing EHRs in a way that qualifies as meaningful use still improves patient care for the worst institutions.
[citation needed]
Re: Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono (YC W11) iPad App
#54Is it just me who finds this 'rebate' quite preposterous. Without sounding too critical about the government measures to reduce healthcare costs, I want to point out to this TED video about a chain of hospitals in India and how they have made quality eye care affordable by cutting costs.
http://www.ted.com/talks/thulasiraj_ravilla_how_low_cost_eye...
Re: Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono (YC W11) iPad App
#55It's interesting that they decided to go with InfraGuard for certification rather than CCHIT. My graduate research involves healthcare certification standards (and computer security) but when I asked InfraGuard details about their certification process, they asked me to sign an NDA first (which I wouldn't/couldn't do). CCHIT is more open, but unfortunately, it's controlled by large vendors in the the healthcare space…
CCHIT is in no way controlled by large healthcare vendors. For example, on the Ambulatory work group only 3 of 11 members work for vendors.
http://www.cchit.org/workgroups/ambulatory
(I am a former member of another CCHIT work group and work for a large healthcare vendor.)