HSPRD partner Stacey A. Cischke was interviewed by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin for an article titled, “Rules near for health records”.The article discusses the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH ACT), a part of the stimulus package that provides incentives for health-care providers to make meaningful use of certified electronic health record technology.Stacey Cischke discussed the state of transition from hard copy medical records to electronic saying, “For bigger institutions, a lot are already headed that way but if you think about smaller physician practice groups with four physicians, the mandate to go electronic is different. It’s very expensive.” Ms. Cischke also discussed the challenge of training staff on the new technology, “for one of my clients, a major teaching hospital, that’s a major undertaking. There may be 100 doctors on staff not to mention other nurses or technicians who may make entries. It has to be good training, information that they’re going to retain.”
