“Physicians still aren’t breaking down the doors to buy electronic health records, despite government financial incentives of $44,000-$64,000 per doctor that begin in 2011.
I learned this from electronic health record (EHR) vendors I spoke with at the just-concluded annual convention of HIMSS, the leading health IT professional society. “The tsunami hasn’t arrived yet,” said Ken Ernsting, vice president of business development for Sage Software, at the Atlanta meeting. Heather Caouette, director of communications for eClinicalWorks, said that while business has been good, few physicians who have recently purchased her company’s EHR said it has been because of the government subsidies.”
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Ken Terry, BNET Healthcare, 5 March 2010
