From EHR To…?
At our first;OPEN MINDS;technology institute, almost two decades ago, our keynote speaker from Rand Corporation spoke to the new electronic health recordkeeping system (EHR) mandates. His take was that the EHRs would benefit payers and health plans by gathering clinical data and automating payment processes, but the financial benefit to provider organizations would be insignificant.
Skip ahead two decades, and we do see a financial return on investment (ROI) for provider organizations investing in an EHR (see;Assessing The ROI Of Strategic Technology Investments;and;Finding An Electronic Health Record System For Your . . .