BUT how much do you bet that there will be multiple pay for performance standards so that it will cost docs buckets of money for doing local modifications to include the code necessary to support these initiatives?
As it is, even just within HHS initiatives there is both DOQIT and at least one other set of quality measures and they are just getting into this. Rhetorical question: Will it get worse or better? ------------------------------------------------- BCBS of Massachusetts To Expand Pay-for-Performance ------------------------------------------------- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is doubling to $189 million the annual amount it spends on performance incentives for health care providers. Boston Globe. http://www.ihealthbeat.org/index.cfm?Action=dspItem&itemID=121269 -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
