UNITED STATES ADOPTION and use of health information technology (HIT) is proceding
at an unprecedented rate, in large part due to unsustainable health costs, lackluster
health quality, and documented preventable medical errors. Perhaps the tipping point
for change was the 2009 passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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A significant portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is known as the
HITECH Act, or Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act,
sometimes referred to as the Medicare/Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive
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Published online: November 20, 2012
Footnotes
This article was written by Lindsey Hoggle, MS, RD, PMP, director of Nutrition Informatics for the Academy of Nutrition in Dietetics.
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