ANI Connection: HITECH PROGRAMS SUPPORTING THE JOURNEY TO MEANINGFUL USE OF EHRS
Judy Murphy RN, FACMI, FHIMSS

$3.95 		CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing
February 2011 
Volume 29  Number 2
Pages 130 - 131
 
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ABSTRACT
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and its important Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Growth (HITECH) Act provision were passed into law in February 2009. Commonly referred to as "The Stimulus Bill" or "The Recovery Act," the legislation allocated $787 billion to stimulate the economy, including $147 billion to rescue and reform the nation's ailing healthcare industry. Backed by an allocation of $19 billion, the legislation authorizes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide reimbursement incentives for hospitals and eligible providers who take steps to become "meaningful users" of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to improve care quality and better manage care costs. The incentives are intended to help healthcare providers purchase and implement health information technology (HIT) and EHR systems, and the act also stipulates that penalties will be imposed after 2015 for providers who fail to adopt use of EHRs.In

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