There is Federal Stimulus money available for Eligible professionals who adopt a qualified Electronic Health Records (EHR) system. You could be eligible to receive as much as $44,000.00. This money is available over five years for practices who begin using a qualified Electronic Health Records System by 2011.
Eligible Professionals included the following:
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Practice Fusion guarantees that their product will meet the Federal requirements as a qualified EHR program. Please see this link for their guarantee.
Below are a few other links from Practice Fusion which show more details of this exciting opportunity:
Practice Fusion’s Federal Stimulus Center:
http://practicefusion.com/pages/healthcare_stimulus_center.html
Practice Fusion’s description of the HITECH act (the governing law):
http://practicefusion.com/pages/HITECH.html
In addition, if you would like to look at the actual Congressional Record showing the passage of the law, here is a link to the law. Please see pages 353 through 398 for the relevant portions.