..but in case you weren’t paying attention to President Obama’s address to the AMA, you had better be getting thee hence to an EHR system.

This is no longer a matter of electronic records being an interesting but problematic alternative to paper charting. That hasn’t been the case for some time, by the way.

The President of These United States has laid it out, repeatedly and often:

• Change is coming
• Beans will be counted
• Incentives will be aligned with desired outcomes

The federal government is setting the stage to make it so, and everything else is going to follow from there. “Lesser” entities, like insurance companies, are taking note.

So should you.
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