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- Mar 1, 2010
Over the next five to seven years, major federal health-care initiatives will offer new and significant industry direction and funding for health IT investment.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will pump billions of dollars into health IT through the act's Health Information Technology for Electronic and Clinical Health (HITECH) provisions. These provisions offer an estimated $2 billion in seed funding and $45 billion in incentives for the "meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHRs), as defined in recent regulations proposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, payable through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
At the same time, major health-reform legislation at the federal level relies on health IT to implement payment reforms, new capabilities and cost savings. Although many aspects of the reform debate and federal regulations for health IT adoption remain unresolved, there seems to be one issue that all participants and policymakers -- from government to employers, health plans, providers and consumers -- ...Continue Article...
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