Eugene Heslin, MD of Bridge
Street Medical Group will discuss use of health IT in his small
practice with House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health July 20
FISHKILL, N.Y., July 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ —
If a small general medical practice in Saugerties, NY can use new health IT
tools to deliver safer, more efficient health care for its
patients, so can practices across the nation. That is the message
Eugene Heslin, MD, lead physician at
Bridge Street Medical Group, will bring to the House Committee on
Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, Tuesday at 1 p.m.
Beginning in October, billions in Medicare and Medicaid
incentive payments will become available to health care providers
who can demonstrate “meaningful use” of electronic health records.
The long-awaited final rule for what constitutes meaningful use was
released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services July 13. House Committee on Ways and Means
health subcommittee members invited Heslin to testify about the
role incentives may play as providers move to adopt health
information technology.
Heslin, who has used electronic health records in his
six-physician practice since 2006, is on the leading edge of health
information technology adoption. In 2009, Bridge Street Medical
Group was among 11 practices with 237 primary care physicians
operating at 51 sites across the Hudson Valley that adopted the
patient-centered medical home model and used health IT to support
his practice redesign to this new approach to care.
“I speak on behalf of my patients, representing their stake in
health IT,” Heslin said
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