Another $88 Million Slated for Health IT
Submitted by John Farrell on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 2:20pm
As part of the new Recovery Act, the federal government is seeding the health care industry with another $88 million in funding for health care centers to adopt new health information technology systems to manage their administrative and financial matters, and to transfer old paper files to electronic medical records.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Health-Care-IT/Obama-Dedicates-88M-More-for-Health-IT-368534/
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