Information Technology Reform IS Health Reform
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Health information technology: laying the infrastructure for national health reform.
The enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a signal achievement on the road to reform, which arguably began with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. That statute's Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) provisions created an essential foundation for restructuring health care delivery and for achieving the ke...
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عنوان ژورنال: North Carolina Medical Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0029-2559,0029-2559
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.71.3.254