What Are We Getting for the $30 Billion We Are Spending On Electronic Health Records?

In 2009, the federal government budgeted $30 billion to incentivize doctors and hospitals to install electronic health records and use them “meaningfully”. Here are the results from Boston’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital — one of the leading academic medical centers in the country: Of 858 physicians, 540 (63%) were “meaningful users”. Meaningful use was associated […]



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