Downstreamed EHR Licenses

The last five years have heard a relentless call for information technology dissemination to improve quality and lower costs in health care. Electronic health records (EHR) have been touted as the first and most important step to a real technology revolution. For physicians, though, the cost of EHR implementation has often proven prohibitive. The Stark and anti-kickback protections for donated medical records was expected to jumpstart this effort. Not so fast. In his consideration of downstreamed EHR licenses Dan Shay takes his primer on EHR license agreements a step further in explicating the special complications of tri-partite license agreements. What happens on termination is at least as important as what is entailed in implementation.