Article: PLUGGING IN.(Report: Health Care)(New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene)(Farzad Mostashari)(Brief Article)

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is on a mission to get community health clinics and primary care providers in poor neighborhoods to plug into the information age.

"We need to be at the table and provide a model for how these systems can improve public health,'' says Dr. Farzad Mostashari, assistant commissioner at DOHMH.

Dr. Mostashari has spent the last year leading an IT task force studying how electronic medical records can be used to ...

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