Financial incentives for healthcare IT adoption.
For the pace of healthcare IT adoption to be accelerated, barriers such as the misalignment of financial incentives must be corrected. While adoption incentives are still in the formative stage, it is clear that mature incentives need to be sufficiently large to lead to adoption, emphasize outcomes rather than strictly use of IT, and require that hospitals put "skin in the game". Failure to develop these incentives will guarantee that the country will continue to experience low healthcare IT adoption rates. A collaborative effort by purchasers, providers, and government is the key to addressing the challenge of misaligned incentives.
Glaser
John
J
Partners HealthCare, Boston, USA. jglaser@partners.org
D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000191:economics*; D009042:Motivation; D014481:United States