Financial incentives provided under the Medicare Improvements to Patients and Providers Act of 2008 as well as from private insurers are having the desired effect of driving adoption of electronic prescribing

A program to bring about wider adoption of health information technology in physicians' offices is mirroring the conceptual framework of rewarding and penalizing physicians through Medicare payments that was used to promote adoption of electronic prescribing

Despite hopes that research on the comparative effectiveness of health services could both improve health care quality and reduce spending, the creation of an expanded federal program remains stuck in the examination phase