Hospitals could receive $11 million and physical practices up to $64,000 in incentives for creating electronic medical records under the $19 billion endowed by the recently-signed stimulus package.
There is a catch, though, to reaching President Obama’s goal of EMRs for all Americans by 2014. The lack of universal protocols for collecting data and no [...]

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President Barack Obama’s commitment for every American to have an electronic medical record by 2014 is to save lives and money while creating jobs.
“If you go to the bank on the way home and take out your ATM card and get $25 out of your account to use this weekend, the transaction costs the bank [...]

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President Barack Obama proposed $50 billion annually to implement electronic medical records by 2014.
In a Jan. 8 speech at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., the president said electronic records were needed to mitigate rising health care costs.
“This will cut waste, eliminate red tape and reduce the need to repeat expensive medical tests,” Obama said.
“To [...]

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