Experts Identify That Majority Of Office-Based Physicians Could Qualify For Federal Incentives For Use Of Electronic ...

Researchers at The George Washington University Department of Health Policy have found through analysis of federal survey data that more than four in five office-based physicians could qualify for new, federal Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) portion of the American Recovery ...

Research Shows that Majority of Office-Based Physicians Could ...

... federal Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). ...

A Healthy Approach to Patient Privacy – HIPAA – Security Threat ...

... Your Business with HIPAA/HITECH (June 11, 2010). In February 2009, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA), an economic stimulus package that included new Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (continue reading. ... This change demonstrated the massive penalties to the sum of millions of dollars that can result from the privacy penalty structure that followed the 2009 HIPAA amendments and the HITECH Act. ...

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New to this second edition are chapters focused on how federal legislation--namely, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act--is providing financial incentives ...