Health Affairs October 20, 2021
The 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was an undeniable success in its primary goal: deploying electronic health records (EHRs) across the US health care system, thus creating a data layer that has allowed the development of new products and services. When HITECH was passed more than a dozen years ago, few providers or hospitals in the United States had digitized their health records in a meaningful way. Fewer than 10 percent of hospitals had an EHR system. In contrast, today there are almost no acute care hospitals without one.
Yet, while HITECH was successful in moving providers and hospitals to adopt EHR systems, there remain several areas that were either not a focus of...
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