{"id":657,"date":"2015-08-21T18:56:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T22:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=657"},"modified":"2015-08-21T18:56:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T22:56:02","slug":"ehrs-could-offer-benefits-but-security-concerns-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"EHRs Could Offer Benefits, But Security Concerns Remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0ANN PURVIS,\u00a0news.heartland.org)<\/p>\n<p>Since the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act in 2009, doctors and medical practices treating Medicare and Medicaid patients have been under orders by the federal government to implement electronic health records (EHRs).\u00a0Those failing to use EHRs risk having their reimbursement rates reduced. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.heartland.org\/newspaper-article\/2015\/08\/21\/ehrs-could-offer-benefits-security-concerns-remain\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0ANN PURVIS,\u00a0news.heartland.org) Since the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act in 2009, doctors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}