Proposed ONCHIT budget includes physician incentives for EHR use

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) is seeking a budget increase. And part of that budget includes incentives for physicians who adopt EHR:

[T]he budget proposes $3.8 million for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to fund the second year of a demonstration project to offer financial incentives for as many as 1,200 physician practices to adopt certified electronic health records systems.