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2015 OSEHRA Open Source Summit
2015-07-29 - 2015-07-31    
All Day
Join the Premier Open Source Health IT Summit! Looking to gain expertise in both public and private sector open source health IT?  Want to collaborate [...]
Converge where Healthcare meets Innovation
2015-09-02 - 2015-09-03    
All Day
MedCity CONVERGE provides the most accurate picture of the future of medical innovation by gathering decision-makers from every sector to debate the challenges and opportunities [...]
Events on 2015-07-29
2015 OSEHRA Open Source Summit
29 Jul 15
Bethesda
Events on 2015-09-02
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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