More than 18,600 eligible professionals registered for the Medicare or Medicaid electronic health records program in December 2011, and 200 hospitals registered for both programs, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That brings the total registrations during 2011 to 124,089 EPs for Medicare meaningful use, 39,503 EPs for Medicaid, and 2,834 hospitals for both programs. Medicaid's 9,614 EP registrations in December eclipsed Medicare's 8,996, reflecting that 43 states now have launched their Medicaid meaningful use programs and 33 have already paid incentives, according to a report submitted to the HIT Policy Committee on Jan. 10.
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Looking to build better care coordination, health systems are buying physician groups in droves. Making the deal work, however, requires careful management on the I.T. front.
