“The Stimulus packages (HITECH Act) that are winding their way through the Senate and House call for spending some $20B on healthcare IT initiatives, the lion’s share to provide incentives to physicians to adopt “certified EHRs”. In addition to the very real potential that this legislation will completely shut-down HIT innovation, another issue was brought to our attention by one of the leading Health Information Exchange (HIE) vendors – getting an EHR into every physician’s office could be done for about a tenth of the cost.”
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John Moore, Chilmark Research, 6 February 2009
