Guest Column: Beyond 'Meaningful Use' Incentives: There's A Better Reason To Convert To Electronic Records
By HK Bain, CEO Digitech Systems, Inc.
Did you know that healthcare companies in the US are concerned that they are not doing enough to manage health information electronically despite government regulations such as the1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA)? In fact, a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers study shows that 8 out of 10 CIOs fear they still haven't done enough to qualify for federal government incentive funds allocated as part of ARRA for healthcare providers who can demonstrate meaningful use of Electronic Health Records (EHR).
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