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Medicare may begin contacting inefficient doctors in mid-2008

CQ HealthBeat, May 21, 2007
The Medicare program has the data and the computer capacity to identify individual doctors who are inefficient compared with their peers and may begin contacting them as soon as mid-2008 to goad them to become more efficient, reports CQ.com. If this is not a warning shot across the bow to physicians, I don’t know what is. I’ve interviewed numerous physicians who have deployed clinical information systems as what they describe as a preemptive move against inevitable federal demands for quality performance data.