Questions On Financing Electronic Health Info Exchange Obscure Its Future, Report Says
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Realizing the full potential of the growing electronic health record adoption depends on robust health information exchange, according to a report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. But in order to get there, questions on how HIE is financed need to be addressed.
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