Are EHR vendors the new villains of healthcare?
A major electronic health record software player, eClinicalWorks, just got busted for falsely obtaining certification with the meaningful use criteria through its EHR — and suggestions immediately arose that the case was a shot-across-the-bow for the entire electronic health records industry.
“The DOJ is sending a message here. They imposed personal liability on the CEO and people who were orchestrating the alleged fraud and they went after a couple programmers,” said Robert Ramsey, a healthcare attorney with Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney.
