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Impact of ARRA Legislation on Providers – Part 2

Posted on: Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Billian’s HealthDATA and Porter Research partnered to conduct a survey of hospital executives’ understanding of the HITECH Act.  In 2009, their research revealed that only 67% of the respondents described the impact of the new legislation to be moderate to significant.  However, in 2010 that number escalated to more than 80%.
Many of the hospitals who [...]

Tags: ARRA, EHR, HITECH Act, physicians, Technology

ARRA Legislation and EHR Technology – Part 1

Posted on: Friday, April 16, 2010

In order to modernize our health system, physicians have to adopt and USE technology.  The HITECH Act, which involves the incorporation of electronic health records (EHR) is a major part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) legislation.
Billian’s HealthDATA and Porter Research conducted a 2 phased research program aimed at understanding providers’ perceptions of the [...]

Tags: ARRA, EHR, HITECH Act, physicians, Technology

ACP President Has Advice for Congress On Stimulus Package – Stick with the House Version

Posted on: Friday, February 13, 2009

The health care reforms present in the economic stimulus bills met with praise from Jeffrey P. Harris, MD, FACP and president of the American College of Physicians. He had some advice for House and Senate negotiators who are currently trying to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the economic stimulus package.
He [...]

Tags: economic stimulus, health care reforms, physician job search sweepstakes, physician jobs, physician jobs by specialty, physician recruiters, physicians

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