E-Prescribing Incentives Offer Model For Electronic Records – CBO’s Orszag
Executive Summary
Proponents of the universal adoption of electronic health records might look to follow the "carrot and stick" incentives for electronic prescribing created by the new Medicare Improvements Act, Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag suggests
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