Money for technology
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The state Department of Health wants to give away $105.75 million in grants to promote health information technology.
The new community-based systems of health information exchange and electronic health records will include privacy protections for patients. It should increase patient safety and help reduce medical errors and costs by providing patients’ medical histories to aid diagnoses and preventive duplicative testing, the state says.
Funding for the grants comes from the Healthcare Efficiency and Affordability Law for New Yorkers, created in 2004 to invest up to $1 billon over four years to reform and reconfigure New York’s health-care delivery system.
For more information, go to: http://www.health.state.ny.us/press/releases/2007/2007-09-25_heal_it_grants.htm
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