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HHS: 2013 Agenda to Bring Down Costs and Improve Quality of Care Through Implementation of Health Information Technology
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- Set aggressive goals for 2013: HHS is setting the goal of 50% of physician offices using EHR and 80% of eligible hospitals receiving meaningful use incentive payments by the end of 2013.
- Increase the emphasis on interoperability: HHS will increase its emphasis on ensuring electronic exchange across providers.
- Enhance the effective use of electronic health records through initiatives like the Blue Button initiative. Medicare beneficiaries can access their full Medicare records online today.
- Implement Meaningful Use Stage 2: HHS is implementing rules that define what data must be able to be exchanged between Health IT systems.
- Underscoring program integrity: HHS is taking new steps to ensure the integrity of the program is sound and technology is not being used to game the system.
Source: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Source URL: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2013pres/03/20130306a.html
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