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6th International Conference on Medical Informatics & Telemedicine
05 Jul
2018-07-05 - 2018-07-06    
All Day
July 5-6, 2018 Berlin, Germany Theme: Innovative information technologies for the improvement of patient care Being  recognized  as  a  world-renowned  organization, Conference Series  takes  pride  to  [...]
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05 Jul
6th International Conference on Medical Informatics & Telemedicine
5 Jul 18
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October 21, 2014: NBER report says that EMR incentive payments ineffective

October 20, 2014
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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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