Adoption Of E-Health Records Gets Stimulus Of Medicare Rewards, Penalties
Executive Summary
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
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