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Time for New Vigor on Vendor Contracts
Healthcare Informatics
Health Care Principal Steve Fox provides commentary for Healthcare Informatics in an article that examines the current environment in which optimizing clinical IS vendor contracts is becoming ever more-critical.
"Without a doubt, among the biggest factors right now is the mounting set of pressures related to the meaningful use process under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, says Steven J. Fox principal, and chair of the information Technology group, at the Washington, D.C.-based Post & Schell law firm. With providers rushing to get EHRs implemented under pressure from the HITECH Act’s requirements, things are “even more pressure-packed” than in the recent past, for providers, Fox says, which means that CIOs and other healthcare IT leaders have got to become far more rigorous in reviewing the contract terms proposed to them by EHR and other IT vendors."