HHS to promote low-cost electronic health record software packag...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Mon, 10/19/2009 - 23:53

If I were a proprietary health IT vendor, the following bolded passage in the new Healthcare Bill (PDF here ) would make me a bit nervous:

SEC. 1102.

 ENCOURAGING MEANINGFUL USE OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS.

(a) STUDY.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall conduct a study of methods that can be employed by qualified health benefits plans offered through an exchange to encourage increased meaningful use of electronic health records by health care providers, including—...

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