Technology Solutions for Health Care Legal Departments
This Bulletin is brought to you by AHLA’s In-House Counsel Practice Group.
- October 30, 2020
- Greg Waldstreicher , PHIFLOW
Close your eyes and transport yourself back to February 2009. Congress enacted the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to jumpstart the economy while billions of paper-based medical records remained in Health Information Management offices throughout the United States. Approximately $17 billion of the ARRA funds were allocated to the health care industry for incentive payments through Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement systems. The purpose of this allocation was to encourage providers and hospitals to implement certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. EHRs were lauded as a great innovation, but many first-generation EHRs were a concoction of systems duct-taped together to meet Meaningful Use requirements.
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