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MedInformatix Summit 2014
2014-07-22 - 2014-07-25    
All Day
MedInformatix is excited to present this year’s meeting! 07/22 Tuesday Focus: Product Development Highlights:Latest Updates in Product Development, Interactive Roundtables, and More. 07/23 Wednesday Focus: Healthcare Trends [...]
MMGMA 2014 Summer Conference
2014-07-23 - 2014-07-25    
All Day
Mark your calendar for Wednesday - Friday, July 23-25, and join your colleagues and business partners in Duluth for our MMGMA Summer Conference: Delivering Superior [...]
This is it: The Last Chance for EHR Stimulus Funds! Webinar
2014-07-31    
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Contact: Robert Moberg ChiroTouch 9265 Sky Park Court Suite 200 San Diego, CA 92123 Phone: 619-528-0040 ChiroTouch to Host This is it: The Last Chance [...]
RCM Best Practices
2014-07-31    
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
In today’s cost-conscious healthcare environment every dollar counts. Yet, inefficient billing processes are costing practices up to 15% of their revenue annually. The areas of [...]
Events on 2014-07-22
MedInformatix Summit 2014
22 Jul 14
New Orleans
Events on 2014-07-23
MMGMA 2014 Summer Conference
23 Jul 14
Duluth
Events on 2014-07-31
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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