HITECH

Listen to the lesson

• Aim of law is to improve the health of Americans by encouraging "Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records"

• Established Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)

• Uses existing payment structures of CMS

• Final rule for Stage 1 on July 13, 2010

• Incent until 2015 ($2 million base for hospitals/$44,000 for each provider)

• Penalize after 2015

• Unique regulations for each venue

• Hospital

• Eligible Provider in clinic

• Require EMR software to be Certified

• Stage 2

• Proposed rule published March 7, 2012

• Open for public comment through May 7, 2012

• Final rule published August 23, 2012

• Analysis underway