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There was a widely shared belief that Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) had catalyzed the creation of a digital infrastructure, which was being used in innovative ways to improve quality of care and curtail costs. There were however major concerns about the poor usability of electronic health records (EHRs), their limited ability to support multi-disciplinary care, and major difficulties with health information exchange, which undermined efforts to deliver integrated patient-centered care. Proposed strategies for enhancing the benefits of HIT included federal stimulation of competition by mandating vendors to open-up their application program interfaces, incenting development of low-cost consumer informatics tools, and promoting Congressional review of the The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) to optimize the balance between data privacy and reuse. Many underscored the need to \u201ckick the legs from underneath the fee-for-service model\u201d and replace it with a data-driven reimbursement system that rewards high quality care.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Conclusions The HITECH Act has stimulated unprecedented, multi-stakeholder interest in HIT. Early experiences indicate that the resulting digital infrastructure is being used to improve quality of care and curtail costs. Reform efforts are however severely limited by problems with usability, limited interoperability and the persistence of the fee-for-service paradigm\u2014addressing these issues therefore needs to be the federal government\u2019s main policy target.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/jamia\/ocv022","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,17]],"date-time":"2015-04-17T00:41:42Z","timestamp":1429231302000},"page":"849-856","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":91,"title":["Leveraging health information technology to achieve the \u201ctriple aim\u201d of healthcare reform"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Aziz","family":"Sheikh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"eHealth Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK"},{"name":"Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, Boston MA, USA"},{"name":"Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 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