2009-07-09
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provides for
incentive payments to providers that “meaningfully use” electronic
health records. ASH, along with 81 other national and local medical
societies, submitted recommendations
to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as to how “meaningful
use” would be best defined for the purposes of such payments. The
proposal aims to ensure that the final definition is set so as to
encourage widespread adoption of electronic health records, as well as
make federal incentives available to a broad spectrum of practicing
physicians.
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