In 2010, Congress enacted sweeping health care reform legislation. The bill signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010 combined with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act amendments, is estimated to provide coverage to 32 million Americans and reduce the deficit by $143 billion over the next 10 years. The health IT-related provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) are intended to build upon the foundation laid by the significant investment in health IT included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). This new law includes many provisions that interact with health IT including:

• New care delivery models that will rely on the use of health IT to improve quality and increase efficiency
• Programs that will utilize secondary uses of health information to enable comparative effectiveness research and improvements in public health
• Health IT standards and protocols to ease clerical burdens, simplify work flows, and facilitate reporting
• Patient education programs that could be enabled through health IT systems

eHealth Initiative continues to review the new laws, rules and regulations as they relate to health IT and quality.

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Summary of Comments and Recommendations of Government Affairs Retreat 2012
eHealth Initiative  2012-02-16  230.75 KB  3

FDA Regulation of Software-eHI from Waypoint Advisors Marwood Group
Marwood Group Advisory, LLC  2012-02-15  222.94 KB  1

Interoperability Three-pager
eHealth Initiative  2012-02-15  352.58 KB  0

Meaningful Use Two-pager
eHealth Initiative  2012-02-15  230.88 KB  0

PCORI Slides
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute  2012-02-15  1.47 MB  1