"health it adoption" Posts

Report to Congress on HITECH: Significant progress in adoption and use of EHRs

Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo | October 9, 2014

Today HHS and ONC submitted the annual report to Congress on progress on the HITECH Act including health IT adoption, health information exchange and use of electronic health information to advance better care and better health. This report highlights progress and accomplishments in advancing a resilient and flexible health IT infrastructure for our nation.

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Rapid Advances in Health IT Adoption and Use in the Safety Net

Michael Wittie | May 6, 2014

Federally funded health centers are making strides adopting and using electronic health records (EHRs) to treat some of the nation’s poorest and most at-risk patients since the enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, according to a new first-of-its-kind study.

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