CMS Pays Out $2.5 Billion In Electronic Health Record Incentives In 2011
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology expects adoption and meaningful use to continue to grow in 2012 as it prepares to address recommendations from a November IoM report.
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