Johns Hopkins Medicine, Erickson Retirement Communities lead Maryland e-medical records push

[CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight]

Colleagues,

Thanks to MedTechIQ member Bartt Horton, http://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/BarttGHorton, for the following post...as reported by Washington Business News...Health industry leaders have submitted a plan to create a Maryland statewide health information exchange that would enable hospitals to share electronic medical records...


Read on at: http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/02/23/dai...

ENJOY!

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[Gerry Higgins]

The ship has already left the dock. They are looking at 20th century EHR technology here. I would be careful about what the Health IT experts have to say about such a plan. I would look to other domains where such a plan has been implemented in the past.