U.S. pushes healthcare providers to share records electronically
Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 16:00
in Mathematics & Economics
A top federal health official says the government is proposing that medical providers have the capability for exchanging patient data by 2014.Hospitals and doctors have received billions of dollars in government subsidies to upgrade electronic health records, but they have not done enough to make those records shareable, a top federal health official said.