Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley will sign legislation Tuesday that provides incentives for health care organizations to implement electronic health records.
House Bill 706 allows the state to make use of federal stimulus dollars available for electronic health records and coordinate those efforts with the state’s own plan to create a state wide health information exchange.
The federal stimulus money provided $19 billion toward electronic health records. State health officials do not know how much of that money will flow to Maryland. http://ping.fm/Xn5GC