EHR Intelligence April 20, 2015
Ever since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed in 2009 and the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs were established, healthcare providers have been quickly implementing EHR systems and adopting health IT tools. The overall movement toward improved quality of care and greater access to healthcare information will likely stimulate the future of EHRs.
Before predictions regarding the future of EHRs and their designs can be considered, it is critical to examine the history and evolution of EHR technology over the last five decades. The American Medical Association Journal of Ethics discussed how the earliest developments in EHR design took place in the 1960s and 1970s. Healthcare leaders began forming organizations as early...
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