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Pay for Performance: Will It Make a Difference?

Written by Ardena L. Flippin, MD, MBA

The intent of Pay-for-Performance (P4P) seems to be payment to encourage certain behaviors. I think that the majority of physicians practice good medicine and have adapted to the behavioral demands of increased documentation of what we ordinarily do as medical caretakers. Is documenting services rendered documenting health?

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Potential and Problems of E-Prescribing

Written by Patricia King

For several years, health care industry experts have urged physicians to adopt electronic prescribing, to improve quality and contain health care costs. Nevertheless, adoption of e-prescribing technology lags; in 2005, the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services estimated that fewer than 18% of physicians used the technology [1]. Are physicians not sold on the benefits of e-prescribing? If physicians do believe that e-prescribing is beneficial, what accounts for the low rate of adoption?