Obama stimulates EMR adoption with bill passage

President Barack Obama this week signed a 1,071-page economic stimulus bill into law, which includes approximately $20 billion for healthcare IT and establishes new rules to protect the privacy of patients' health information . read more

Physicians and information specialists across the country are feverishly figuring out how to best prepare for the impending availability of $19 billion designated for health-care IT spending in the newly signed stimulus bill . Broadly deploying electronic health records (EHRs), they say, will require special support for small private practices across the country. These physicians provide up to 80 percent of the nation's health care, but fewer than 20 percent of them are currently using EHRs. . read more

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