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According to David Goldman, CNNMoney staff writer, “only about 8% of the nation's 5,000 hospitals and 17% of its 800,000 physicians currently use the kind of common computerized record-keeping systems that Obama envisions for the whole nation.”
Obama’s mission is to computerize the nation’s health care records in 5 years [by 2014]. From ‘‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009’’ HR1 -
(3) (a) (ii) Plan to include specific objectives, milestones, and metrics with respect to the following: The utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014.
Individual physicians will be eligible for up to $44,000 in grants by getting in compliance with the appropriate certified EHR programs.
In the medical field, it all will be transactional based - the more Medicare claims a physician submits via an EHR certified application the more incentive dollars they receive. Maximum per is $12,000 in year 1, $8,000 in year 2, $4,000 in year 3, $2,000 in year 4, penalties (in the form of lowered Medicare payments) starting in year 5.
Dentistry is not yet included in a specific mandate. Pressure will be put on dentists’ to become paperless, because insurance companies will stop accepting paper claims. Dental practices that have large numbers of Medicaid patients will most likely be targeted first, since the government controls the purse strings in reimbursements.