Insurers, Health Providers Pledge To Promote Health IT
During a National Press Club forum last week, insurers, health care providers and professional organizations that manage physicians announced a series of private-sector initiatives aimed at promoting wider use of electronic health records. At the forum, federal health care officials stressed that the private sector will be crucial in ensuring widespread âmeaningful useâ of EHRs.
- "Health Plans and Providers Announce Plans To Encourage Shift to Paperless Medical Records" (Pecquet, "Healthwatch," The Hill, 8/5).