April 22nd 
The benefits of hospitals adopting medical record scanning now also include financial incentives from the federal government.
The payment incentives for using an Electronic Health Record (EHR) are a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which financially rewards healthcare organizations that adopt more efficient practices. Healthcare organizations using an EHR with “meaningful use” – which is defined as improving overall healthcare through local processes, better quality measurement and increased communication with medical record scanning – will be eligible.
Financial incentives can be significant: According to the New England Journal of Medicine, physicians working with the North Shore Hospital System in New York would receive up to $40,000 by implementing an EHR.
However, the benefits of EHR implementation extend beyond government incentives. After all, the advantages of an EHR over traditional recording methods are the reasons ARRA is recognizing the approach.
Along with financial incentives from the government, an EHR has the following added benefits for health care professionals:
- Payment for quality of care emphasizes documentation of quality
- As software licenses sold increase, the cost to implement EHR lowers
- EHR enables closer links between community physicians and hospitals by centralizing data
- EHR not only centralizes documentation, but also coding functions, billing, electronic prescribing and other tasks
- Along with saving time on data entry and filing, medical record scanning also offers flexibility in how the user conducts data entry
- EHR can connect to each other and common services, which allows information to be coordinated for the provision of care
Learn how medical record scanning was successfully implemented at one New York hospital.
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