HITECH Act
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The 2009 HITECH Act allocated $36B for healthcare IT incentives
“In 2009 when the bill is passed, there is twenty seven billion dollars available in direct incentive payments to hospitals that implemented electronic medical records. And if you include broader incentives, other health IT projects, data exchanges, training, t…”
HITECH Act paid hospitals up to $64K per physician for EHR adoption
“So specifically, it amounted to 44,000 to 64,000 dollars per physician. In incentive payments over a few years for adopting it. Now that actually went to the hospital, but it was basically, you get paid for how many physicians are doing this.”
Gurley: Government paid $38B in subsidies for doctors to buy EHR software
“Doctors would receive 44,000 dollars each if they bought software. Thirty-eight billion dollars.”
Agarwala: 95% of care providers have adopted electronic health records
“Almost 95% of care providers have adopted electronic health records in the last decade since the HITECH Act in 2009.”
Abernethy: HITECH Act succeeded because a 2007 digital infrastructure blueprint existed
“So it was because that treatise was already ready, and also came along with the point of view of, we need a digital infrastructure to pull this off, that embedded within the context of the stimulus bill, we got the High Tech Act, which led to the full-scale di…”