Our favorite politician Pete Stark has introduced legislation giving bonuses for physicians who transfer over to a federally-approved electronic record system. The total payment is $40,000 over five years per physician, with penalties for late adopters.
Considering it costs up to $30,000 for each physician to implement computerized records, this surprisingly seems like an appropriate sum of money.










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