Benefits of Joining CalHIPSO
Electronic health records offer opportunities to enhance providers’ ability to deliver care, and recent federal legislation will make it easier to purchase and implement EHRs.
- EHRs and health information exchange can help clinicians
provide higher quality and safer care for their patients
and create tangible enhancements for their practices. By
adopting electronic health records in a meaningful way,
clinicians can:
- Know more about their patients. Information in EHRs can be used to coordinate and improve the quality of patient care across multiple provider settings.
- Make better decisions. With more comprehensive information readily and securely available, providers will have the information they need at the point of care
Through HITECH, the federal government is committing unprecedented resources to supporting the adoption and use of EHRs. This funding will provide important support to achieve liftoff for the creation of a nationwide system of EHRs. It will make available incentive payments totaling up to $27 billion over 10 years, or as much as $44,000 (through Medicare) and $63,750 (through Medicaid) per clinician.
CalHIPSO understands the challenges associated with EHR adoption. CalHIPSO’s programs are designed to help transition a paper-based practice to one that successfully uses EHR. For Priority Primary Care Providers (PPCPs), CalHIPSO's membership benefits include the following subsidized services:
- Access to group purchasing discounts
- Assistance locating qualified EHR vendors
- Project management services
- Access to extensive training and education
- Assistance with demonstrating meaningful use in order to begin receiving the federal incentive payments
More Information
- CalHIPSO Fact Sheet - download PDF (128 kb)
- CalHIPSO Practice Commitment Checklist - download PDF (338 kb)
- Why EHR Fact Sheet - download PDF (147 kb)
- Transforming Health Care through EHR’s - download PDF (1.9 Mb)