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AMA Offers Solutions To Help Promote HIT Adoption

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Providing solutions to help promote widespread adoption of health information technology (HIT) by physicians, the American Medical Association (AMA) testified to the Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Congress can help overcome current barriers to adoption and move the nation toward an interoperable, connected HIT system.

"If HIT systems are appropriately implemented and truly interoperable, widespread HIT adoption has the potential to transform the way physicians practice medicine," said AMA Board Member Steven J. Stack, M.D. "The promise of HIT is that physicians will receive information in real-time that will lead to dramatic improvements in quality care. It will be like going from a horse-and-buggy to a bullet train: week-long delays for patient records and comprehensive medication information will become a relic of the past as real-time clinically relevant information will be at a physician's fingertips while caring for patients."

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