As Health IT Emerges, MU Payouts Starting to Make Headlines

Some of the earliest adopters of EHR are starting to collect dividends from their investments this week. • At Medical Arts Radiology of Long Island, NY, 14 radiologists have maxed out their earnings for 2011 Stage 1 incentives, each cashing in on $18,000 apiece. The practice uses MedicsDocAssistant EHR for Radiology and MedicsRIS, both of which are produced by Advanced Data Systems Corporation. •Seattle Radiologists became the first facility in Washington state to make it rain meaningful use dollars; their HIT solution of choice is MedInformatix Version 7.5. • Radiologists at the Flint, MI-based Regional Medical Imaging took home $216,000 in MU for demonstrating meaningful use of EHR through the Merge RIS v7.0 software suite.

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