View the February 20, 2009 UPDATE to this post here.
The Vote – The Senate voted 61-37 to approve an economic stimulus bill that’s expected to cost $838 billion through 2019, according to the latest estimate from the Congressional Budget Office.
Work That Remains – The Senate will have to work with the House to settle differences between the approved Senate version of the bill and the $820 billion House version. Hopefully, those differences will be resolved expeditiously. A finalized version of the bill will be presented to Obama for his signature.
Text of Senate Bill – You can view the text of the Senate bill here.
EHR Incentives – Good news! The EHR incentives under TITLE IV—HEALTH
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, Subtitle A—Medicare Program, remain intact.
Preservation and possible creation of HIT jobs also remains intact. I am very pleased with this outcome. If you are, too, shout out to others by commenting below.
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Reading the house version this morning, I was very pleased as well as to the funding available to make this happen. Now the intellectual heavy lifting begins. For those of us who have dedicated so much to improving information flow in the clinical setting, this can be good indeed.
Thomas A. Coss
I am also pleased. With all the recent news about the Senate whacking the HIT spending provisions, I was presuming the EHR incentives would get whacked (or were whacked) along with everything else.
This is very important legislation for HIT. Now, if we could get some meaningful EHR and privacy standards, we could see some widespread adoption of EHR. All will benefit from this effort.