North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System today announced it will subsidize up to 85% of the cost of implementing and operating an electronic health records system in the offices of its more than 7,000 affiliated physicians in New York City and Long Island. The health system will subsidize either 50% or 85% of each physician's implementation cost and monthly operational fees, with a maximum incentive of $40,000 over five years. Physicians who receive the 85% subsidy will agree to use the EHR to report and share performance data. "We're not going to measure our return-on-investment in terms of dollars and cents; our ROI will be based on our ability to improve patient outcomes," said Michael Dowling, the health system's president and CEO.