Foreword
Two pieces of recent federal legislation in the United States—the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010—have put health care information technology (IT) on center stage. On the one hand, physicians now have financial incentives to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) and make meaningful use of their capabilities. On the other hand, accountable care organizations have financial incentives to support these and other IT investments (such as computerized physician order entry systems and decision-support systems) to measure, monitor, and achieve defined metrics for the quality of care they deliver.
There is renewed promise that IT investments can help the United States ...
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