By Rosemarie Nelson
The economic stimulus bill (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, or ARRA) provides incentive payments up to a maximum of $44,000 per physician over five years for “meaningfully using health information technology.”
Although we don’t yet have definition of “meaningful use,” we can be pretty sure doctors will need to be e-prescribing, exchanging information electronically, and reporting clinical quality measures.
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