Bill extends HITECH to mental health
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The HITECH Extension for Behavioral Health Services Act of 2010 (HR 5025) proposes to provide meaningful use of e-health records awards to mental health professionals and facilities, a category of healthcare providers that were excluded from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health provisions, which were signed into law in February 2009.
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