The federal government has spent tens of billions of dollars incentivizing hospitals and physicians around the country to adopt electronic health record systems. However, taxpayers have not gotten what they paid for, according to National Coordinator for Health IT Donald Rucker, MD.
“We have electronic medical records pretty much everywhere in the American healthcare system, but I think there’s really two tasks that we have left to do—which are the themes for this meeting,” said Rucker in his opening keynote at the start of ONC’s Annual Meeting on Thursday in Washington.
