Health Transformation Blog
Monthly Archives: March 2009
What Does American Recovery & Reinvestment Act mean for HIT?
Clearly US Stimulus Package for HIT ($19.2B) shows there is a strong desire to get codified patient data moving in an electronic form, but why is it going to work? Are providers really going to be interested in letting that cost savings impact their share holders? Will the short-term incentives really going to allow providers to see a new value proposition emerge where they can start new revenue streams (e.g., telehealth/telemonitoring)? How does anyone limit …




