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ARRA included the enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, also known as the HITECH Act. [48] Total health care spending: $155.1 billion [49] $86.8 billion for Medicaid; $25.8 billion for health information technology investments and incentive payments
The use of certified EHR technology for electronic exchange of health information to improve quality of health care. The use of certified EHR technology to submit clinical quality and other measures. In other words, providers need to demonstrate their use of certified EHR technology in ways that can be measured significantly in quality and in ...
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) (Pub. L. 111–5 (text),§2.A.III & B.4) (a part of the 2009 stimulus package) set meaningful use of interoperable EHR adoption in the health care system as a critical national goal and incentivized EHR adoption.
In January 2018, the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) was established as required under the 21st Century Cures Act. Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) | HealthIT.gov. Term: 2021-current Co-Chair: Aaron Miri Co-Chair: Denise Webb Term: 2018-2020 Co-Chair: Robert Wah Co-Chair: Carolyn Peterson
In the United States, formal organizations support financial statewide health information exchange grants from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. These grants were legislated into the HITECH components of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. [1]
Unlike informatics, health information technology means using technology to support every aspect of patient care, including patient health data, facility transactions and other print or digital ...
Health information technology (HIT) is "the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, health data, and knowledge for communication and decision making". [8]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), in particular the HITECH Act within ARRA, sets aside approximately $19 billion for health information technology. This funding was intended to offset the costs of electronic medical record systems for practicing physicians. Because the conversion to electronic medical records is ...