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Federal, state officials prescribing digital health care records: Washington, Sacramento pushing regional data systems to fulfill mandate.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 28-AUG-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
From the San Diego County Medical Society to the president of the United States, a flurry of steps are being taken by officials toward data sharing systems for the health care industry.

Last week, information officers from local hospitals and officials from the San Diego County Medical Society met with Cindy Ehnes, director of the California Department of Managed Care, which oversees the state's HMOs, to tell her of local efforts to create an electronic Regional Health Information Organization. The system would link health records among medical professionals. Medical Society President Tom Gehring said his group did not make any official requests to Ehnes and called the meeting a "fact-finding session."

"We want to let her know how...

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