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Firm predicts tripling of public health network by 2012

EHR Connection, April 30, 2007

Although barriers such as interagency rivalries and privacy concerns exist, the threat of a public crisis and the increase in state funding will drive the progress of public health information networks to include 40 states by 2012, according to Government Futures, a government market research firm. Currently, only 13 states are capable of sharing information related to pandemics and other health threats on a national scale. But in five years, more than 80% of the U.S. population will have interconnected systems, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Information Network, the firm predicts. As if to prove Government Futures' prediction, last week a new Web site, ICERx.org, launched to provide prescription histories to physicians and pharmacists anywhere in the country after a disaster (See next brief). 

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