I almost forgot to post today. What can I say? I’ve had a crazy busy today. Lots of interest in advertising on EMR and HIPAA lately. So, we’ll keep it short and sweet. Here’s a poll that I posted on EMR and EHR also and originally took from HIStalk Practice about the resources people plan to use to achieve meaningful use. The early voting seems to indicate that EMR vendors better be prepared to help. We’ll see after EMR and HIPAA readers vote how that changes:

A few days ago, I posted a poll to try and gauge how readers of this site are approaching the billions of dollars in EHR stimulus money. It’s still early in the voting so if you haven’t voted already, go and share (anonymously) how your clinic is approaching the EHR stimulus money.

However, even this early it’s interesting to see the current results of the ARRA EHR Stimulus money poll which asks the question: How are you planning to approach the ARRA EHR stimulus money?

I’ll admit that I’m surprised by how many people voted for the “EHR Stimulus… or Bust” option. Although I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since I posted that EMR is About the Money.

What’s even more interesting is that 72% of those that voted are planning or hoping to get the EHR stimulus money. Looks like $18 billion in EHR stimulus is stimulating something.

As I mentioned in my previous post on the ARRA EHR stimulus payments under Medicare, a clinic needs to have at least $24k in allowable charges in order to receive the full EMR stimulus money of $18k. This poll is an attempt to get an idea of if most doctors offices have over $24k in allowable charges or not. I imagine Obama and company looked at this number when planning for ARRA, but I haven’t seen any data on how many clinics will be eligible for the full $18k in EMR stimulus money.

Thanks for the input. I think it will also be interesting to see how many people respond that they don’t take Medicare either. I probably should also do something similar for Medicaid. I guess that’s a future post.

I posted an EHR stimulus poll a week ago and I thought it would be interesting to post some preliminary results. I really wish a few more people would have participated in the poll. It’s only 2 clicks to add your opinion. I expect over time I’ll get some more responses.

Take a look at the current results for the question: How will your clinic be approaching the EMR Stimulus money made available in the HITECH Act (ARRA)?

What’s surprising to me from the results so far is that such a large percentage of people are either waiting to hear about the EHR stimulus money or are planning on the EHR stimulus money. This poll is a little bit biased since so many of the people visiting EMR and HIPAA these days are coming here to learn about the EHR stimulus money.

Like I’ve said before, there’s no doubt that the $18 billion investment by Obama into electronic health records has increased the interest in EHR software. We’ll have to just wait and see how much of this increased interest in EHR turns into actual EHR purchases.

I decided to try out a few polls on EMR and HIPAA. I have a feeling they’ll be pretty popular and could provide some interesting insight into the world of EMR and EHR. If you have a poll, you’d like me to run, let me know in the comments and I’ll consider adding it. I don’t want to overrun this place with polls, but hopefully my readers will find them interesting as will I.

Here’s the first poll about people’s interesting in the ARRA/HITECH act EMR stimulus money:

I’m sure this poll could be improved, and it’s far from scientific. Nonetheless, I think the results could be really interesting.