Yesterday - Wednesday the 18th of November, the House of Representatives approved HR 3014, a bill that was designed to help health care providers purchase electronic health record systems and other health information technology tools, the Rutherford Daily News Journal reports.The Small Business Health IT Financing Act would authorize the Small Business Administration to oversee a loan program for health care providers seeking to purchase health information systems. However many electronic medical records vendors are using the bill as a marketing tool - boldly claiming to practices nation wide that the government will 'pay in full for your EMR' when in fact it is more of a loan than a blank check as they would have their customers believe.
Kathy Dahlkemper (D-Pa.), chair of the House Small Business Regulations and Healthcare Subcommittee, introduced the measure
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.3014:
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