New Federal laws requiring electronic health records are behind a push to update technology and hire new healthcare workers.
2011 Outlook: Healthcare IT jobs growing fast
Reprinted from Modern Healthcare, January 2011
While 2010 marked a tipping point for electronic health records in the healthcare industry, 2011 will likely produce a rapid uptake by healthcare providers in higher-quality EHR systems, chiefly because of a very heavy federal thumb on the scale and relatively low adoption rates at the start of the year.
Look for 2011 to be a year of frenetic activity in healthcare information technology. Both hospitals and office-based physicians will be scrambling to implement and meaningfully use EHRs to qualify for Stage 1 federal clinical information technology incentive payments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. At stake are an estimated $27 billion in payments over the life of the multiyear IT incentive program.
The share of hospitals with either a basic or a comprehensive EHR was 11.9% in 2009, but only 2% reported having EHR systems that would allow them to meet the federal government's meaningful-use criteria, according to research published in August in the policy journal Health Affairs.
by Essence -- Post made through www.cqlc.edu --
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