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Survey Says: EHR Incentive Program is on Track

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We continue to see progress in improving the nation's healthcare system, and a key tool to helping achieve that goal is the increased use of electronic health records by the nation's doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers.

We continue to see progress in improving the nation’s healthcare system, and a key tool to helping achieve that goal is the increased use of electronic health records by the nation’s doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers. These electronic tools serve as the infrastructure to implementing reforms that improve care — many of which are part of the Affordable Care Act.

Doctors and hospitals are using these tools to reduce mistakes and hospital readmissions, provide patients with more information that enable them to stay healthy, and allow for rewarding healthcare providers for delivering quality, not quantity, of care.

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Source: Healthcare IT News

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