Medicare Should Increase Payments For Physician Practices That Acquire And Use HIT To Improve...

"The benefits of widespread adoption of interoperable Health Information Technology (HIT) will be significant, leading to a higher standard of quality in the U.S. healthcare system," Yul D. Ejnes, MD, FACP, told the House Ways and Means Committee subcommittee on Health today. "Unfortunately, without adequate financial incentives, small practices and their patients will be left behind the technological curve." Dr. Ejnes, a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and chairman of ACP's Medical Service Committee, testified at a subcommittee hearing, Promoting the Adoption and Use of Health Information Technology. "My 50-physician group practice has an electronic health record (EHR)," Dr. Ejnes, a general internist in private practice in Cranston, R.I., told the subcommittee as he cited personal... [read full story]