Medical centers across the country will be scrambling for the next three years to meet compliance standards related to electronic health records implementation according to The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. There are several deadlines associated with stimulus package and the new mandates from Medicare and Medicaid incentive programs.
One of the primary milestones of this behemoth overhaul, is the submission of the updated strategic plan to Congress from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. For more information refer to the following websites.
http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/home.aspx
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com
