CAP Statline: Incentive for Electronic Health Records Adoption in Stimulus Bill for Independent Pathologists

From the CAP's Statline: Incentive for Electronic Health Records Adoption in Stimulus Bill for Independent Pathologists:

Both the House and Senate stimulus bills include incentives for physicians to incorporate electronic health records into their practices, but for pathologists, qualifying for the different incentive programs will depend on your practice.

Independent pathologists, as part of H.R. 1 and S. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, would be eligible for a $15,000 incentive payment for adopting electronic health records starting 2011, with a declining incentive scale each subsequent year until 2015.

This is terrific, whether you agree or not with the concept of the government's stimulus, investing in electronic health records is a terrific thing to do, improving patient care and lowering costs.  And of course a key technology required for complete EHR is digital pathology.