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Connecting for Health Responds to Government on E-Prescribing Incentive Program

Publication Date: 2009

Authors: Connecting for Health Steering Group

Publisher: John and Mary R. Markle Foundation

Topic(s): Health Information Technology

Keywords: Electronic prescribing; Health Information Technology; Quality improvement

Type: Brief

Series: Policy Perspective Briefs

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Connecting for Health Steering Group encourages the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to create electronic prescribing incentives that reward use of information to improve health decision-making and outcomes, rather than reward the mere use of technology.