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As the United States prepares to advance towards the establishment of a national health information technology infrastructure to improve care quality and healthcare cost by facilitating better interactions among the industry’s stakeholders, the various aspects for achieving this are now slowly taking form. The $19.2 billion Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH), authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), has set off considerable excitement across the healthcare sector; with providers reconfiguring their information technology adoption plans for a certified EHR, and vendors delivering demand-driven products. With the incentive involving multiple years of investment, eligibility criteria for the grant was set for the “meaningful use” of technology.