Not so long ago, the U.S. federal government was honed in on rewarding healthcare providers for IT adoption and healthcare providers themselves were solely focused on the difficult task of hardwiring electronic health records into their daily workflow. With EHRs now nearly universally adopted, that emphasis is changing.
“It’s more about how we are using the EHR, as well as other technology,” according to Ferdinand Velasco, MD, chief health information officer at Texas Health Resources, a 14-hospital integrated delivery system in North Texas that has a long history of being advanced when it comes to EHR adoption.
