Murphy Judy
Information Services, Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Nurs Econ. 2010 Jul-Aug;28(4):283-6.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and its important Health Information Technology Act provision became law on February 17, 2009. Commonly referred to as "The Stimulus Bill" or "The Recovery Act," the landmark legislation allocated $787 billion to stimulate the economy, including $147 billion to rescue and reform the nation's seriously ailing health care industry. Of these funds, $19 billion in financial incentives were earmarked for the relatively short period of 5 years to drive reform through the use of advanced health information technology (HIT) and the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs). he incentives were intended to help health care providers purchase and implement HIT and EHR systems, and the HITECH Act also stipulated clear penalties would be imposed beyond 2015 for both hospitals and physician providers who failed to adopt use of EHRs in a meaningful way. Nurses will be integral to achieving a vision that will require a nationwide effort to adopt and implement EHR systems in a meaningful way.
《美国复苏与再投资法案》及其重要的《健康信息技术法案》条款于2009年2月17日成为法律。这项具有里程碑意义的立法通常被称为“经济刺激法案”或“复苏法案”，它拨款7870亿美元以刺激经济，其中1470亿美元用于拯救和改革美国严重病态的医疗行业。在这些资金中，190亿美元的财政激励措施被指定用于为期相对较短的5年时间，以通过使用先进的健康信息技术（HIT）和采用电子健康记录（EHR）来推动改革。这些激励措施旨在帮助医疗服务提供者购买和实施HIT和EHR系统，并且《健康信息技术经济与临床健康法案》还规定，2015年以后，对于未能以有意义的方式采用和使用EHR的医院和医生提供者将施加明确的处罚。护士对于实现一项需要全国范围内以有意义的方式采用和实施EHR系统的愿景至关重要。
