‘A recent study involving 60 interviewees revealed that the documentation focus of current ambulatory EMRs supports billing and not patient needs. Researchers at the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) concluded that the current reimbursement system drives EMR use for documenting billable services over care coordination, the opposite of what policymakers wanted.
Can we solve this problem and change the course? Yes, but not without real disruption, a real healthcare revolution, namely payment reform. It sounds easy enough. Pay for care coordination rather than pay for volume of services. You hear it enough times at conference keynote speeches. So why is it so difficult to do?”
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch, 6 January 2010
