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AMA members urge for financial assistance to assist conversion to electronic records

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, June 22, 2006

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According to a recent American Medical Association (AMA) survey, 84 percent of the group's membership favored the organization working to create a tax credit for physicians to help cover the cost of implementing electronic medical records in physician practices.

The tax credit would be up to $50,000 per physician to help defray the costs associated with the transition. Some survey takers agreed that financial assistance was necessary but disagreed that a tax credit was the appropriate format.

Among other topics included in the survey was a question of flu vaccine distribution. A total of 78 percent of members advocated the AMA working with vaccine manufacturers to make certain an adequate amount of every manufacturer's supply of the flu vaccine will be distributed directly to physicians rather than to distributors.

To read more on the results of the survey, visit the AMA's Web site at http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/16489.html.

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