“As the debate over health insurance reform rages on Capitol Hill, a less contentious federal health initiative is quietly being implemented in hospitals throughout the country — and generating a growing stream of business for high-tech firms in San Diego and elsewhere.
Over the next five years, the federal government is projected to spend as much as $45 billion on health care technology systems, largely through a stimulus program known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or HITECH.”
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Dean Calbreath, San Diego News, 22 November 2009
