Facts about EMR/EHR Electronic Health Records & Stimulus Plan HITECH Act
It’s nice to see the government and other vendors now validate patient documentation that Pulse Software has been allowing and recommending for your office since 1996 with the launch of ChiroPulse . It is no surprise that patient record keeping will one day be certified, standardized & possibly mandated.
Unfortunately many vendors today are using fear, uncertainty & scare tactics on our fellow Chiropractors. As if doctors don’t face enough obstacles to patient care they now need to fend off bully tactics from unscrupulous software vendors. The vendors often leave out facts & specifics, for example that the HITECH stimulus relates only to Medicare/Medicaid and would begin perhaps in 2011 at the earliest, no time soon.
You’re reading the emails, promotion & print ads that sound so great you almost want to believe them. They read like the email from your “long lost relative who left you millions” that you can collect once you “send your bank account info, social security info & all of your personal data”, plus a “small $10,000 payment to cover legal fees to gain your inheritance”. Here is a sample …
“Stimulus Plan rewards over $40,000 to doctors using EMR software!”
“Start reaping the benefits of the Economic Stimulus Plan now!”
“Money Flying”
“Implement now once the $19.2 billion in stimulus dollars is paid out, there will be no more!”
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