First Oakwood Physicians Receive Incentives for Electronic Health Records



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Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services pays $18,000, the Maximum for 2011 Dearborn, Mich. – October 31 — Two Oakwood physicians are among the first in the healthcare system to be compensated for showing meaningful use through the implementation of eClinicalWorks, an Electronic Health Records (EHRs) system. Greg Marcarian, MD, and Steve Atallah, MD, each received an $18,000 check from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), for demonstrating meaningful use under the American Reinvestment and Recovery (ARRA) act. The incentive is the maximum allowed in 2011. “I am quite […]
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