| If you are a Physician or own a medical facility | | | | federally approved package. Everything starts |
| and your office is still using paper medical records, | | | | on Jan. 1, 2011. However, you must remember |
| you might want to start thinking about switching | | | | which is needed for the required 80% usage rate |
| over. Those days of shuffling through papers is | | | | which is to be obtained by the Obama-mandated |
| finished. EMR(electronic medical records) is the | | | | deadline. |
| wave of today and the future. I'm not speaking | | | | The Stimulus bill, which has been renamed as the |
| about a new trend kind of wave. EMR(electronic | | | | American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is |
| medical record)software is about to be | | | | supposed to make the use of Electronic Medical |
| mandatory for every Physician and medical facility | | | | Records universal by 2015. Up to 90% of |
| in the U.S. That's right. There was a window of | | | | U.S. Physicians will be fully invested in EMR by |
| two years spurred by Obama's administration | | | | then. Their pay will be reduced if they are not |
| providing economic stimulus funding for purchasing | | | | using EMR software by that year. In the months |
| EMR software. Now clinicians are rushing to take | | | | of autumn 2010 and January 1, 2011 it is |
| advantage before Jan. 1, 2011, when the money | | | | expected to resemble a "mad house" as |
| kicks in. | | | | Physicians and Hospitals surry to take |
| But I said "mandatory". That's right. | | | | advantage. So the time started last year in |
| Physicians must start using EMR(electronic | | | | 2009 and continues now in the begining of 2010, |
| medical record) systems to process all their | | | | for Physicians to potentially exploit this |
| patient data by 2014. Also, there are strict | | | | opportunity. Maple Consulting is a provider of |
| conditions for physicians and medical facilities to | | | | federally approved EMR software and if your a |
| take advantage of the new stimulus package | | | | Physician looking to increase patient volume then |
| referring to EMR software packages. Included in | | | | review their Continued Care Program. |
| those conditions is 80% usage while purchasing a | | | | |