Hospitals Allowed to Pay for EMR Interfaces and Not Violate Stark

NeoTool's blog reports Hospitals Allowed to Pay for EMR Interfaces and Not Violate Stark.

"Specifically, a hospital system can pay for the creation of an electronic interface between unique electronic health record (EHR) systems of individual physician practices and the hospital network’s EHR system. The interface would allow physicians, from their practices, to order and communicate the results of tests and procedures performed.

This is a good thing, and will be a good precedent for digital pathology. Hopefully hospitals will be able to pay for digital pathology interfaces without violating Stark too.