Posts Tagged ‘incentive’

Background: New US Policy for EHR

Friday, February 19th, 2010

The Obama Administration has made eHealth deployment a prioritized issue and through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, approximately $ 19 billion was made available for spending in Healthcare IT infrastrucure.$ 17 billion were earmarked for incentive payments for the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs); this program is now starting to take shape.
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