
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Kevin Jones
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Those in Healthcare IT can stand as a witness to what I’m about to tell you, because you all lived it right along side of me. When the Obama administration passed the HITECH Act as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus bill) of 2009 on February 18th of that year, it was supposed to give the industry providing IT for healthcare offices in America an economic boost. From that bill, the term “Meaningful Use” was born, which is used to define how a medical practice meets the government set standards of automation, connectivity, and digitization. Nearly a year and a half later, in July of 2010, the final requirements and definitions for the first stage of “Meaningful Use” were finally established. ...