"Healthcare IT is a nonpartisan issue," Allscripts Healthcare Solutions CEO [and Obama healthcare IT advisor] Glen Tullman told the Wall Street Journal Health Blog. Plus, as the Journal points out, Republican threats to repeal "healthcare reform" generally refer to this year's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The estimated $27 billion in "meaningful use" incentives come from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed in 2009.
It's highly unlikely GOP leadership will try to roll back the HITECH portion of ARRA, said Politico healthcare reporter Jennifer Haberkorn, who spoke at a HIMSS press briefing last Friday. "It's not on the radar," she said, according to Healthcare IT News. "The attitude on [Capitol] Hill is that health IT funding is creating jobs."


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Of course, the cynics among us say we were never going to see the money in the first place....

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