Follow TIS on Twitter: @Truth_is_Scary & Like TIS of Facebook- http://ift.tt/1og5wK2 A provision of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) offers health-care providers a maximum incentive of $63,750 for implementing electronic health records (EHRs) into their operations. A 2008 survey in the New England Journal of Medicine found that less than 17 percent of health-care professionals utilized electronic records in any form. But by 2013, two years after Obamacare was enacted, 78 percent of doctors and hospitals used some form of EHRs, according to a study published in the journal, Health Affairs. Though electronic records streamline processes and, theoretically, make the patient-doctor relationship stronger and more effective, they come with inherent risks. Breached medical records have become commonplace since 2010.
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