Collaboration with DHCS staff to help develop a proposal to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the use of EHR adoption entities to assist solo/small practices achieve EHR meaningful use, especially practices serving Medi-Cal patients

Principal Investigator: Robert Miller, PhD
Funding: California Department of Health Care Services, California HealthCare Foundation

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), working with CAMRI, collaborated with DHCS staff and other key stakeholders to investigate if Adoption Entities (AE) speed EHR adoption among Medi-Cal focused eligible providers. Investigators composed a definition of AEs and their possible contractual relationships through stakeholder interviews, a review of the literature, and analysis of CMS' EHR incentive program final rule. The report is available from the authors.