If you need a tax break, have a baby?

Excellent article - E-Medical Records: 10 Steps To Take Now at InformationWeek Healthcare.

It includes discussion of the following:

1) Get buy-in and sponsorship from your organization's top leadership, including influential clinicians and the CEO. "Solicit your leadership team and actively communicate with upper management,"

2) Decide how you'll fund the project--remember stimulus dollars don't start flowing until 2011.

3) Start evaluating your workflow and processes. Figure out what steps you're doing now waste time and money, and can be eliminated with the new system.

4) Find out where key information resides in your organization.

5) Look at EMR and other health IT products for the ones that fit your organization's needs.

6) If you're not ready for a big bang approach to EMRs, consider modular software and components that let you add functionality in increments.

7) Determine whether you have the resources and staff to handle an on-site system--both to implement it and keep it running.

8) Get your infrastructure ready to deal with new systems.

9) If you were already planning or implementing health IT systems prior to the HITECH legislation passing in February 2009, don't change things now.

10) Finally, don't jump into poorly thought out health IT plans just to try getting the stimulus rewards. "Don't do it just for the money," said Wilson. "It's like having a baby just for the tax break."

How about... why don't you marry somebody today so you can have possibly have a baby with them next year for for a tax break for 4 years? Yes, probably about as absurd as expecting the Repubs will do well in November, and then rescind a bulk of the ARRA stimulus funds?