Subsidy program for EHRs ineffective, draft report argues

Subsidy program for EHRs ineffective, draft report argues
The paper looks at the trend line of EHR adoption pre-2008 and extrapolates it to provide a baseline to compare to the eventual adoption with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, which created the subsidy program in …
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CMS Provides Flexibility In Certified EHR Technology For 2014
On Friday, August 29 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a final rule modifying the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive …
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How dependable is the technology behind Electronic Health Records?
"It's unfortunate what happened in Dallas, but it's a teachable moment," said Dr. Johnathan Weiner, Director of the Center for Population Health Information Technology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Weiner heads up the Center for …
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