“As the 60-day open comment period for the Meaningful Use NPRM has come to a close, numerous physician organizations have voiced loud concern about this process. The $34 billion subsidy earmarked for Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption incentives, contained in the HITECH portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), was hoped to be enough to incentivize physicians to begin moving their documentation away from paper and toward electronic systems.
However, in order to qualify for the incentives (which can total up to $44,000 per physician, paid out over a 5-year period), physicians need to jump through a series of hoops in order to demonstrate that they are “meaningfully using” certified EHR technology.”
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers, 18 March 2010
