In addition, 86 percent of Florida Medicaid physicians who already use EHRs plan to apply for funding.
Those who are not planning to apply for incentives indicated the following factors as obstacles:
– cost — 69 percent
– insufficient information about the incentive program — 42 percent
– uncertainty about what system to acquire — 42 percent
Read the Health Affairs abstract on EHRs.
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