HSA 3111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Health Information Technology For Economic And Clinical Health Act
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First step to create the nationwide health network: creation of the office of the national coordinator of health information technology (onchit) by president bush in 2004. 2009 obama signed the american recovery and reinvestment act (aara) designated . 8 billion through the medicare and medicaid reimbursement systems to incentivize physicians and health care organization to adopt meaningful use of electronic health records (ehrs) Earliest inquiries into potential benefits of hit : kennedy administration 1960s, president"s science advisory committee report some new technologies and their. Promise for the life sciences hit would bring benefits to biomedical research and the health care system. Late 1970s and early 1980s: paper forms were mostly eliminated and physicians began interacting with the patient"s. 1990s: commercially produced comprehensive ehr systems were marketed and sold to health care institutions in high volume. Allowed hospitals to implement ehrs without the expenses of building custom systems.
