EHR Adoption is Essential for Outpatient Surgery to Remain Relevant in Managed Care
EHR Adoption is Essential for Outpatient Surgery to Remain Relevant in Managed Care by Tara Vail, Chief Growth Officer at HST Pathways Tara Vail, Chief Growth Officer at HST Pathways In 2009, hospitals and doctors were given financial incentives to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) were not eligible for these funds, and were therefore not incentivized like the rest of the healthcare system to implement the technology. The consequence of that differentiation is that t...
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