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Article: Stakeholder groups release joint roadmap for promoting and implementing EHRS in long-term care.(electronic health records)(Brief Article)
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- Healthcare Financial Management
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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A coalition of 14 stakeholder groups released a joint roadmap Jan. 5 to focus private and public sector efforts toward promoting and implementing electronic health records and other information technologies in long-term care settings. A significant portion of national health expenditures are devoted to the care of individuals over 65 years old; however, current health IT agendas and strategies are almost exclusively focused on acute and ambulatory care settings.
The roadmap is the result of the first long-term care health IT summit, held in August 2005, which brought together more than 125 long-term care health IT thought leaders representing more than 100 ...