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HITECH Act did not speed up electronic health record adoption as hoped, study shows

by Traci Bratton

August 20, 2015
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A new study led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Impact of the HITECH Act on Physicians' Adoption of Electronic Health Records," published online in July 2015 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, finds that the financial incentives offered to physicians through meaningful use programs actually had a weak impact on the uptake of EHRs.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-08-hitech-electronic-health.html

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