May 27 2011
The Boston Globe reports on Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which is one of the facilities that received one of these grants.
Bloomberg: U.S. Pays $158 Million to Doctors to Adopt Digital Records
The U.S. government has paid more than $158.3 million to hospitals and doctors this year to encourage adoption of electronic health records, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said today (Engleman, 5/26).
The Boston Globe: BIDMC Receives Medicare Award For Electronic Health Records
The federal government today awarded its first payments from a Medicare program designed to push hospitals and individual health care providers to adopt electronic health records. Three Massachusetts physicians received payments starting at $18,000. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, long a leader in electronic records, received $2.57 million (Conaboy, 5/26).
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente. |