tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 13

PHYSICIAN NOTES: Electronic Health Records Could Get Boost From Federal Employees

Bill would require EHRs and performance-based funding for fedsYou could be seeing wider use of electronic health records in your office soon, if a new bill is successful. The House Committee on Government Reform recently started debating H.R. 4859, the "Federal Family Health Information Technology Act." Under the bill, insurers would provide all Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan participants--nearly 8 million federal workers--with EHRs beginning in 2008. Insurers would collect participants' health care, prescription claims and related health services data. Providers and participants could contribute employee-related health information to the participant's file, ranging from claims and services...

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