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Article: EMR solutions; Doc organizations band together in R.I.(Rhode Islands, electronic medical records)
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- Modern Physician
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Byline: Joseph Conn
Four physician organizations in Rhode Island have formed a for-profit corporation to promote a deceptively simple solution to some of the knottiest healthcare IT problems facing physicians today: selecting an electronic medical records system, getting EMRs in the hands of outpatient physicians at an affordable price and finding a way to make the installed EMRs interoperable with each other and local hospitals.
The company, Electronic Health Records of Rhode Island, was incorporated on Oct. 17, 2005, according to the Rhode Island secretary of state's office.
"The dream here is to have every doc in the state own one IT ...