Health leaders in South Florida are reviving efforts to obtain widespread adoption of electronic medical records, hoping now they can land millions from the federal economic stimulus package.
Two projects in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, the other in Palm Beach County -- had ground to a halt in the past year when state seed money ran out, at a time when record-sharing systems were working in test runs but not complete.
Now, the organizers of both projects are meeting again to pursue grants from the $30 billion stimulus fund that President Obama and Congress set aside in February to create a national medical data system. Obama has called for an electronic health record for all by 2014... "It would be a natural fit for us to get the money and resume what we have started," said Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger, a physician who is on the board of the South Florida Health Information Exchange, the group running a project in the Broward and Miami areas. "Why use the money to reinvent the wheel when that has already been done?"
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Source: Bob LaMendola, South Florida leaders revive efforts to push for electronic medical records, angling for stimulus funds: New life for dormant projects aiming to reduce waste, medical errors, Sun Sentinel, Business and Financial News, (August 7, 2009)
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