N.Y. Mayor Proposes E-Health Records
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N.Y. Mayor Sees Technology As Way To Health Revolution
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed using electronic health records, or EHRs, as a way to help keep costs down and to provide more preventive care, Government Health IT reports. This plan would extend beyond the city and state of New York, as he wants every hospital in the country that accepts Medicaid and Medicare to have EHRs, which could cost as much as $20 billion. He said he wants the records to be used to track patients’ health trends and treatments, as well as doctors’ performances. Bloomberg said using IT "gives you the right prescription for our ailing health care system." New York City is currently spending $43 million toward establishing EHR systems for doctors who treat New Yorkers at public expense.
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Tech Daily AM -- 2/14/07
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