Overview
The healthcare industry is looking for solutions that will increase their ability to deliver better quality patient care. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) includes provisions for health information technology aimed at lowering costs and cutting waste, while improving the quality of care and patient safety.
Financing can help by creating new acquisition time lines for providers (hospitals/physicians) related to Economic Stimulus EHR Activities.
IBM Global Financing can help clients capture future ARRA funding Future incentives and avoid the potential penalties. An IBM Global Financing offering can act as a project funding accelerator and help clients start implementations now without having to wait for funding to be distributed.
Client benefits
- Can assist clients in positioning themselves to receive any upcoming incentives as well as avoid potential penalties.
- Provides a gap funding solution- for items not covered by ARRA funds.
- Project costs can be pushed out to match timing of funding and better match project benefits.
- Allows clients to maximize their spending power with flexible ways to fund their acquisitions.
- Helps smooth out and consolidate costs and manage complex IT projects.
- Enables clients to manage project funding with uniformity, efficiency, reporting, and economic benefits.
- Streamline the entire IT infrastructure lifecycle—including planning, procurement, budgeting, payment and asset disposition.
Incentives
IBM Global Financing Fee plan:
Eligible products
IBM and non-IBM hardware, software and services
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