One hospital will cut provider access to EHR if #ICD10 training isn't complete by 7/27: http://t.co/V1p1h9T9L4
— SantaRosa Consulting (@SantaRosaHealth) July 26, 2015
This article is pretty shocking. I can imagine how well this would go over at most hospitals. I hope we get to hear how well this strategy works and who will win what appears like a game of chicken between the doctors and hospital. Does the hospital need the doctors more or do the doctors need the hospital more?
Here’s an excerpt from the article linked above that describes what they’re doing:
“There is a ‘go live’ date for these changes that is Oct. 1 for everyone across the country, including us, so we felt it was very important that all medical providers be trained,” Groves said. “We set a date of July 27, which is Monday — if they have not done the training by then, their access to Soarian will be cut off.”
If they don’t have access to the EHR, that’s basically saying that a doctor can’t practice at that hospital, no? It’s interesting that access to the EHR is being used as essentially revoking privileges to be a doctor at a hospital. I can hear many doctors initial reaction being that they didn’t want to access the EHR anyway. Although, it’s a lot more complex than that response would describe. Can you practice medicine at a hospital that has an EHR without having access to the EHR? I believe the answer is no unless the hospital makes some extraordinary concessions to a doctor (not likely to happen in the hospital mentioned above).
What do you think about using EHR access as a way to motivate doctors to do something? Is that a good strategy? Will we see it happen more?
One would hope that the hospital made the effort to have training easily available, made sure doctors knew long ahead, and then actually enforced this rule with everything it implies.
Ron