What is the HITECH Act An overview by athenahealth

Uploaded by athenahealth on Nov 29, 2010
www.athenahealth.com/hitech.php The HITECH Act is rapidly reshaping the funding and implementation for electronic health record adoption in the U.S. According to the HITECH Act, Physicians are eligible to receive up to $44,000 in total incentives per physician from Medicare for "meaningful use" of a certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) starting in 2011. Learn more by watching this video.
Dallas L Alford IV, CPA is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the state of North Carolina and owner of Atlantic Financial Consulting, a consulting firm that provides comprehensive medical billing services, practice management consulting, coding audits, Medicare compliance, Medicare RAC support and other general medical practice consulting services.
To learn more about Atlantic Financial Consulting you may visit their website at
atlanticfinancial.us or contact Dallas L Alford IV, CPA directly at 1 888-428-2555, Ext. 200.

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I found this little video very informative, I am taking a course in HIT and my professor asked that we write a short paper on the topic of HITECH I was a little confused about the topic, but I think this little video explains it very clearly.

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