Homework help > What two pressures on the health care industry, th... > Published by: CPA Guru 4 years ago
By: CPA Guru
Subject: Health care and Life Sciences
Answered

What two pressures on the health care industry, the first in the 1990s and the second in The 2000s, conclude that electronic medical records are essential? ...[Show More]

4 years ago


Answer the Question above

Answers (1)


The development of ICD-10 coding standard for health records in 1994. Then the computer era of the 2000s welcomed a statistic by the Institute of Medicine that most people lost lives to errors in the records. This drove president George W. Bush to call for Electronic Health Records. It was picked up by Obama in 2009 where he signed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act

By Steve 4 years ago . Marked as helpful (285). Marked as unhelpful (252)


When you can’t seem to find the right answers

Get a step-by-step solution written by a professional tutor