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Stage 2 of the EHR Incentive Program

  |  Issue: October 2011  |  

For more information on criteria for participation and successful reporting for the CMS EHR Incentive Program, please visit www.rheumatology.org/HIT or contact Itara Barnes in the ACR’s Quality and Health Informatics department at [email protected].

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