HIMSS Explains Three Reasons to Support Pres. Obama?s Call to Computerize All Health Records Within Five Years

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), representing more than 20,000 individual members - of which 73% work in provider settings - and 350 corporate members, today announced its support for the health information technology (IT) provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan of 2009 proposed by Congress. HIMSS believes the inclusion of funding for health IT is essential if we are to meet President Obama�s goal of computerized health records for all Americans by 2014. http://www.emrspecialists.com/2009/02/himss-explains-three-reasons-to-support-pres-obama%e2%80%99s-call-to-computerize-all-health-records-within-five-years/