The Time is Now. The Stimulus Center will help to prepare you to implement an EHR.
Great incentives are coming. Be ready for them.

On February 17, 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the American
Recovery & Reinvestment Act.

The health IT component of the Bill is the HITECH Act, which appropriates a net $19.5
Billion dollars to encourage healthcare organizations to adopt and effectively utilize
Electronic Health Records (EHR) andestablish health information exchange networks at
a regional level, all while ensuring that the systems deployed protect and safeguard
the critical patient data at the core of the system.

The opportunity presented by the Bill is enormous. After literally decades of slow
but steady progress towards converting our paper-based record system into an
electronic one, we now stand poised for a monumental leapforward. The
Congressional Budget Office predicts 90% of physicians and 70% of hospitals will
be using a comprehensive, robust Electronic Health Record over the next few years.

As a result, the country will save billions of dollars on the provision of healthcare, and
our citizens will receive coordinated, informed care from their entire network of providers.