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Baltimore area hospitals, retirement communities to exchange health data
EHR Connection, June 16, 2008
Erickson Retirement Communities and three hospital systems in the Baltimore area will create a health information exchange that will give emergency room physicians quick access to patients’ medication histories, The Baltimore Sun reported May 21.
The Maryland Health Care Commission selected the joint venture of Johns Hopkins Medicine, MedStar Health, the University of Maryland Medical System, and Erickson, which operates retirement communities in Catonsville and Parkville, according to the article. The commission will provide $250,000 in startup funding for the nonprofit venture to be known as CRISP (Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients).
CRISP hopes to begin the exchange within six months at emergency rooms in several hospitals and eventually expand to all 47 emergency rooms in Maryland, the newspaper reported. Its strategy is to begin with information about medication history only and to eventually include other types of information such as medical or surgical histories depending on the success of the program.
Click here to read The Baltimore Sun article.
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