Electronic Health Records – Beyond Meaningful Use

Keywords

EHRs - ARRA - clinical systems - meaningful use - AMCs - electronic health records

• References

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• 3 U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Web site.. Meaningful use: a definition. Recommendations from the Meaningful Use Workgroup to the Health IT Policy Committee, June 16, 2009. Available at:http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_11113_872720_0_0_18/Meaningful%20Use%20Preamble.pdf (accessed June 3, 2010).
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