U.S. hospitals and physicians will take four years to deploy comprehensive electronic health records (EHR) systems if they hope to snag some of the billions of dollars the federal government has earmarked to reimburse them for the work. Healthcare companies must begin to meet the reimbursement deadlines while the federal government has yet to finalise technology and product specifications for e-Health systems. Till last year, only 10% of healthcare facilities in the US used electronic health records but the government wants that by 2014 almost half the facility should be using them. The government is offering significant monetary incentives — a total of $36 billion in reimbursement funds — to spur EHR initiatives along.

A 275-bed hospital would be eligible for about $6 million to defray IT costs, and individual physicians who implement EHR systems can get as much as $44,000. The funds will be available by next year to clinicians and health care facilities that prove that they are using certified her technology. However the specifications and criteria that constitutes the meaningful use of her is still in the draft stage. EHR systems would streamline workflow and improve the quality of care in hospitals that lack IT resources., but he noted that many hospitals lack the IT resources or expertise needed to implement them.

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