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NYC effort will create nation's largest community-based EHR network
EHR Connection, March 17, 2008
New York City officials announced recently that the Big Apple is on track to meet its goal of equipping more than 1,000 local healthcare providers, many in its poorest and sickest neighborhoods, with secure EHR systems by the end of 2008.
An EHR system is already in use at more than 200 primary care providers whose patients include more than 200,000 New Yorkers, according to a February 25 press release from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Fully implemented, the system will benefit more than one million patients and will create the nation's largest community-based EHR network.
"Electronic health records that put prevention first are a necessary but not sufficient step to fix our ailing healthcare system," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in the press release. "By bringing this health technology to New Yorkers, we are building a national model for a healthcare system that works, by preventing illness rather than merely treating people after they're already sick. In Washington, they talk about how our healthcare system should be reformed; here in New York City, we are actually doing it."
Click here to read the press release.
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