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  • 8 key elements to an effective EHR system action plan

    Summer 2009
    Newsletter: Vital Signs

    Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50

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    Abstract: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (also known as the stimulus bill) includes a section known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) that devotes $17 billion to the implementation of electronic health records (EHR). The good news is that funding for implementation is finally available to physicians and health systems. The bad news is that the funding is the easy part — the hard part is the implementation of an EHR system. An outline of eight key elements points the way.

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