From the January/February 2011 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine


To facilities that are just starting the journey to EHRs, CIOs offer a piece of advice — don’t wait a minute longer. For those who don’t keep up, snips to Medicare reimbursements are in store, and rumor has it private payers are soon to follow suit.

Investing in IT infrastructure and changing the workflows of almost every hospital employee is a major culture change but CIOs encourage viewing ARRA as an unprecedented opportunity to transform the delivery of care.


Phoenix Children’s Sarnecki says ARRA runs the risk of sharing the same fate as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: it can be perceived as nothing more than a regulatory requirement with money behind it. “I think somehow you have to make ARRA important to the hospital for the mission of a hospital and not just important for the regulatory compliance or dollars,” he says.

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DOTmed Registered EHR/EMR Sales & Service Companies
Names in boldface are Premium Listings.

Domestic
Troy Lair, The Compliance Doctor, LLC, CA
DOTmed Certified
Sabas Rodriguez, Practice Fusion, CA
Larissa Dalton, Empower Technologies, FL
Marisa Honomichl, Pulse, Inc., KS
Amy DeMarco, Henry Schein MicroMD, OH
Jeff Root, Merry X-Ray Corporation, OK

International
Debora Smith, McKesson Corporation, BC, Canada

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