On one side is the need to invest capital and staffing resources to purchase certified technology to collect data that are not useful or meaningful, such as smoking cessation and immunization history. On the other side, the threat of penalties looms, beginning with a 1 percent reduction in Medicare payments in 2015, which increases to 3 percent in 2017The government is not out to target radiology, says Robert M. Tennant, MA, senior policy advisor of Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) in Washington, D.C. MU was designed to in-centivize primary care providers to adopt EHRs, he says. The gap between primary care providers' IT needs and radiologists' is large. "It is not logistically reasonable for the vast majority of radiologists to be meaningful users," says Tennant.
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