Republicans slam health IT program

Published March 17, 2015 3:56pm ET



Senate Republicans said the Obama administration has botched a plan to make all health records go electronic.

The lawmakers were dismayed by several problems surrounding the “meaningful use” program, created in 2009 to give physicians and hospitals money for adopting health information technology. If doctors or hospitals don’t adopt electronic health records from government-certified vendors, they will face cuts in their Medicare payments, starting initially with 1 percent and moving up from there.

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