Medicare Program to Show Advantages of Electronic Health

The American Society of Hematology's "The Hematologist" which arrived today carried the following announcement on page 6: "New Medicare Demonstration Program Aims to Show Advantages of Electonic Health"

"Medicare is looking for 12 communities across the country that can bring together a broad cross-section of community leadership, leverage resources, and recruit small and medium-sized primary care physician practices willing to provide the evidence that electronic health records (EHR) can improve the quality of patient care.

"As many as 1,200 physician practices nationwide could be eligible for incentive payments of up to $58,000 per physician - up to $290,000 per practice - over the five-year life of the demonstration. E-mail EHR_Demo_communityselections@cms.hhs.gov for more information."

Apparently, Medicare only wishes to learn about positives. Negatives are irrelevant.