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03 Dec
2018-12-03 - 2018-12-05    
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ConferenceSeries LLC, Ltd in conjunction with its institutional partners and Editorial Board Members, is delighted to invite you all to the 5th  International Congress on Healthcare & Hospital Management going [...]
05 Dec
2018-12-05 - 2018-12-07    
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Microsoft Technology Center New York, NY Bridging the Digital Divide with Evidence Based Medicine The call for evidence in digital medicine is getting louder and [...]
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05 Dec
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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