Healthcare IT Update

Yeah, I'm planning to dump this paper chart soon.

And, many expect their hospitals to help them foot the bill.

Physicians are eager to jump on the EHR bandwagon, reports a survey released today from the consulting and technology firm, Accenture. And they must be planning to get busy fast, given that only 6 percent of physicians Accenture contacted say they currently have “fully functioning” EMR systems.

Physicians who don’t plan to adopt EMR might be planning to simply retire instead — when Accenture isolated physicians 55 and younger, they got 80 percent saying they would be implementing EHR within the next two years.

The driver? The promise of HITECH incentive payments for early adoption and the threat of reduced Medicare payments if they don’t adopt by 2015. What HIT pros can learn from survey ……