Steve Fox featured in For the Record's May 2009 Cover Story
Steve Fox was interviewed in this month's Cover Story "The Big Push", in For the Record, a biweekly magazine for health information management professionals, regarding the incentives and challenges of EHR adoption. On incentives included in the HITECH Act, Steve argued that:
“it’s almost crazy not to adopt EHRs because we’re talking about a significant amount of money ... From my discussions with hospitals and other physicians, the consensus seems to be that leaving that large sum on the table would just be foolish. Some hospitals I’ve spoken with are anticipating this will bring in millions.”
Steve also identified interoperability as a crucial goal for EHR systems:
“Trying to encourage not just adoption of EHRs but having them all interconnected is definitely the next step and perhaps even the definition of success in the end ... Hospitals need to be connected with one another or the EHRs are not being used to their full potential. Take Philadelphia, for instance. There are a lot of hospitals there but almost no connectivity among them. If a patient has his records at one hospital but gets taken to a different hospital, there’s no way to access his records, even if they do have an EHR in place.”
You can read the full article here.
