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Options for EMR software, pay for performance incentives boosted adoption rate for one health system
Quality Improvement Monitor, February 29, 2008
Partners Community Healthcare explained how they achieved a 100% adoption rate of electronic medical records (EMR) throughout their health system at the HIMSS conference in Orlando, FL. Healthleaders Media (which is affiliated with HCPro) reports that adoption was low especially among the system's primary care physicians. The health system increased adoption rates by offering physicians a choice in the software to use.
Other techniques Partners used were using a pay for performance method to engage physicians in using the technology by showing the direct connection to a return on investment. In addition, Partners mandated EMR use for any new physician group joining the system. This was later changed to include all physicians in the system, and only 16 out of roughly 1,100 physicians have chosen to leave the system.
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