Maryland law requires insurers to pay doctors for EHR adoption

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed a new law today, making it financially beneficial for physicians to implement electronic medical records into their practices. The new law requires private insurers to offer financial incentives if physician offices switch from their paper record keeping systems to digitized medical records.

Maryland officials have said this is the first state law of its kind to advance EHR adoption in this way. Read full story...