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February 8, 2012

Fierce Health IT on the need to “Sell” free money with EMR

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As those who read our briefs will see, some HIT vendors have decided that they’re going on a whirlwind tour, intended to sell more physicians on the value of accepting the fat wad of cash being handed out under the stimulus package.

Putting aside, for a minute, the foolishness around “meaningful use”–after all, who’s going to spend thousands or millions on an EMR and play “Pong” with it?–there’s still something wrong here.

I may not have seen everything in life, but I’ve seldom seen anybody refuse to accept huge bundles of cash to do something they’re probably going to have to do anyway.

For the rest of this thought provoking article please see the Fierce Health IT website here.