“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Tuesday that the agency will provide financial incentives for as many as 1,200 small and medium-size primary care practices to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) over a five-year period. Federal officials say the new demonstration program could improve the quality of care for as many as 3.6 million patients — and perhaps more if government efforts to encourage similar initiatives by private payers are successful.”
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Neil Versel, Digital HealthCare & Productivity, 30 October 2007
