Rural hospitals: Enough stimulus for IT?

This webcast originally aried on Wednesday, May 6, 2009.

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Major differences exist between the healthcare information technology incentives for prospective-payment system, or PPS, hospitals and critical-access hospitals under the economic stimulus package known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that only half of the critical-access hospitals will be “meaningful users” of healthcare IT by 2019.

A Modern Healthcare editorial webinar will look at the state of IT at rural healthcare organizations.

Rich Donkle, director of financial consulting services at the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative, Sauk City, will discuss the differences in IT incentives in the stimulus package and why the critical-access facilities are likely to need assistance beyond that funding to accelerate use of IT.

Sue Severson, drector of health IT services at Stratis Health, a not-for-profit quality-improvement organization based in Bloomington, Minn., will discuss a roadmap and tools she has developed for the nation’s critical-access hospitals.