Methodology to assist physicians in the selection of electronic health records software

Author

Piliouras, Teresa ; Fortino, Andres ; Andonov, Michael ; Huang, Housheng

Author_Institution

Polytech. Inst., New York Univ., Hawthorne, NY, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

7-7 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper describes the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and associated reimbursement incentives that are being offered to promote wide scale adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) software by physicians and hospitals. A methodology is described to help physicians select EHR software that meets their practice needs, and complies with new government standards for meaningful use that must be satisfied in order to qualify for ARRA incentives.

Keywords

incentive schemes; medical administrative data processing; socio-economic effects; ARRA incentives; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; EHR software; electronic health records software; physician assistance; reimbursement incentives; Costs; Dentistry; Government; Hospitals; Legislation; Medical services; Medical treatment; Software quality; Software standards; Surgery; ARRA; CCHIT; EHR software; Electronic Health Records; HL7; ROI calculation; evaluation criteria; meaningful use; software selection methodology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT), 2010 Long Island Systems

Conference_Location

Farmingdale, NY

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5548-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5550-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LISAT.2010.5478273

Filename

5478273