By Vanessa FuhrmansAllow us to pause from our wall-to-wall coverage of the Pfizer-Wyeth deal to consider another expensive proposition: How to move America’s doctors and hospitals from reams of paper and manila folders to electronic medical records.House Democrats are looking to spend $20 billion in their stimulus bill to jump start President Obama’s pledge to digitize health records. But there’s debate over how to put all that money to effective use.Glen Tullman,nike shox sko, chief executive of the health IT outfit Allscripts-Misys Healthcare and an advisor to the Obama campaign on health information technology issues, argues that that any legislation should first help doctors buy and install electronic medical records, then give them financial incentives to actually use them in a way that could reduce waste and improve care. “That one-two punch would dramatically change the adoption rate for physicians,Louis vuitton topanky,” he said in an interview with the Health Blog. The House bill does provide such bonuses for doctors who use the records to coordinate care and in other “meaningful” ways,Lacoste greece online, while draft legislation introduced in the Senate provides upfront funding. “Congress is on the right track,” he says. “Now we have to put those bills together and make them a reality.”He points to the success of a similar incentive program, courtesy of Medicare, to get more doctors to use electronic prescriptions — Allscripts’ other big business besides electronic health records. For more on what Tullman had to say, click on the video window above.

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