“Seventeen months after the U.S. stimulus law authorized billions to subsidize electronic health records (EHRs), 864 pages of rules for how physicians and hospitals must show “meaningful use” of the technology are finally set. Now comes the hard part: implementing the technology in a country where, by one estimate, only 17 percent of doctors use EHRs at all.
“This is a turning point for electronic health records in America, and for improved quality and effectiveness in health care,” David Blumenthal, the national coördinator for health information technology, said in a statement after the rules came out last week.”
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David Talbot, Technology Review, 23 July 2010
