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Transforming Medicine: Evidence-Driven mHealth
2015-09-30 - 2015-10-02    
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
September 30-October 2, 2015Digital Medicine 2015 Save the Date (PDF, 1.23 MB) Download the Scripps CME app to your smart phone and/or tablet for the conference [...]
Health 2.0 9th Annual Fall Conference
2015-10-04 - 2015-10-07    
All Day
October 4th - 7th, 2015 Join us for our 9th Annual Fall Conference, October 4-7th. Set over 3 1/2 days, the 9th Annual Fall Conference will [...]
2nd International Conference on Health Informatics and Technology
2015-10-05    
All Day
OMICS Group is one of leading scientific event organizer, conducting more than 100 Scientific Conferences around the world. It has about 30,000 editorial board members, [...]
MGMA 2015 Annual Conference
2015-10-11 - 2015-10-14    
All Day
In the business of care delivery®, you have to be ready for everything. As a valued member of your organization, you’re the person that others [...]
5th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare
2015-10-14 - 2015-10-16    
All Day
5th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies" The fifth edition of MobiHealth proposes [...]
International Health and Wealth Conference
2015-10-15 - 2015-10-17    
All Day
The International Health and Wealth Conference (IHW) is one of the world's foremost events connecting Health and Wealth: the industries of healthcare, wellness, tourism, real [...]
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MGMA 2015 Annual Conference
11 Oct 15
Nashville
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Articles

October 21, 2014: NBER report says that EMR incentive payments ineffective

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  • A new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has concluded that subsidies provided under the HITECH Act haven’t been effective at increasing adoption of EMRs by hospitals. After evaluating EMR data from 2008 as a baseline, and calculating the amount of federal subsidies for new EMR adoption, researchers found that the 2011 U.S. hospital EMR adoption rate would’ve been achieved just two years later, in 2013, even without the help of federal incentives.

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