One-on-One With Norton Healthcare VP & CIO Joseph DeVenuto, Part II

July 29, 2009 by root
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In this part of our interview, DeVenuto says sending PDFs to physician practices is one thing, discreet data quite another.

DEVENUTO: It’s hard to say because while they made the recommendations around it, they haven’t actually talked about how you measure it. If I have it turned on, does that mean that I’m using it? If I turn it on, is it 50 percent of my doctors doing CPOE 50 percent of the time, and then how do I measure that? (after this interview, a preliminary definition stipulated 10 percent of all orders must be entered electronically by 2011) I think there’ll be a lot of entertaining dialogue between now and whenever.

 

GUERRA: Have you figured out how much you stand to receive under HITECH?

 

DEVENUTO: Yes. Our reimbursement department did some number crunching around that. On the hospital side, I think they were still thinking $6-8 million because it’s based on Medicare population and Medicaid population, etc, and probably $6-8 million on our employee physician practice side.

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