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Stimulating the Adoption of Health Information Technology
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Health ReformHealth Insurance DesignTechnology AdoptionHealth PoliticsFinancial ProtectionHealth Care FinanceHealth LawPolicy AnalysisU.s. EconomyHealth CommunicationDigital HealthHealth FinancingPublic HealthManaged CareHealth Services ResearchUniversal Health CareHealth Insurance ReformPublic PolicyHealth PolicyE-health ServiceHealth InsuranceHealth Information SystemNational Health InsuranceHealth ReimbursementHealth Information TechnologyHealth Care ResearchHealth EconomicsHealth Policy InitiativeHealth Care ReimbursementHealth Informatics
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) is a historic health‑care stimulus that expands federal support across the U.S. economy, including significant provisions for health care. The study examines how ARRA’s $19 billion program aims to accelerate the adoption of health information technology by doctors and patients. ARRA prevents drastic Medicaid cuts, expands preventive care and research funding, and assists unemployed individuals in obtaining health insurance.
The recently enacted stimulus bill — the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) — touches almost every aspect of the U.S. economy. Health care is no exception. In fact, the ARRA is historic health care legislation of the type rarely produced by our famously incremental federal government. The law prevents dramatic state cuts in Medicaid, expands funding for preventive health care services and health care research, and helps the unemployed buy health insurance. But perhaps its most profound effect on doctors and patients will result from its unprecedented $19 billion program to promote the adoption and use of . . .