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Habersham Medical Center must pay back $1.5M to federal incentive program
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Demorest-based Habersham Medical Center is moving into the digital age but at much more trouble and expense than it had hoped. The hospital, now forging ties with Gainesville’s Northeast Georgia Medical Center, has been involved in the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Electronic Health Records Incentive Programs, which helps health providers pay for developing medical record technology. “We acquired the computers to do that and, with those computers, you have to have software modules,” said David Kerby, hospital authority chairman.