DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2009 Issue 5 (May)
EHR demo cancelled with passage of stimulus law
CMS has put the brakes on a much-ballyhooed program to encourage medical practices to purchase electronic health records after the recently passed economic stimulus law rendered the effort redundant. At last month's annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) in Chicago, the Medicare agency said it was canceling Phase II of its national EHR demonstration in wake of the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The move affects approximately 800 practices in eight communities.
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