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Connecting for Health Responds to Government on E-Prescribing Incentive Program
Publication Date: January 2009
Publisher(s): John and Mary R. Markle Foundation
Author(s): Connecting for Health Steering Group
Funder(s): John and Mary R. Markle Foundation
Funder(s): John and Mary R. Markle Foundation
Series: Policy Perspective Briefs
Special Collection: John and Mary R. Markle Foundation
Topic: Health (Health services administration)
Media, telecommunications, and information (Information policy)
Keywords: Electronic prescribing; Health Information Technology; Quality improvement
Type: Brief
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.