Richard L. Clarke, DHA, FHFMA
President and CEO, HFMA
Is universal adoption of electronic health records possible in less than 10 years? What are the barriers? What is the role of government?
These are important questions facing healthcare financial executives as the year 2006 begins.
To help answer these questions, HFMA facilitated two roundtable discussions on universal adoption of EHRs by hospitals and health systems with Health and Human Services IT coordinator Dr. David Brailer. The purpose of these roundtables was to open a dialog between Brailer and financial executives on barriers and enablers to acquisition and implementation of these systems.
As I listened to the financial executives discuss the challenges they face related to these systems, the following issues struck me.
