A sales rep from Allscripts has sent around the following information about what the stimulus plan will do to incentivize the deployment of electronic health records. I’ve long been of the opinion that they will only happen if the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandates them. That’s what happened with electronic claims processing. [...]
Health Affairs released its projection for health care spending in the U.S. over the next ten years, and in another study showed where we are going to spend it.
During the projection period (2008-2018), average annual growth in national health spending is projected to be 6.2 percent–2.1 percentage points faster than average annual growth in gross [...]
