BC Advantage - 2009 Issue 3

Letter to Obama: Change I.T. Strategy

C. Peter Waegemann, CEO of the Medical Records Institute, has sent a letter to President-elect Obama suggesting new national strategies to promote health information technology. Boston-based MRI is an advocacy organization and also sponsors the annual TEPR conference. What follows is the text of the letter, dated Nov. 11: Dear Mr. President-elect:For over 25 years, Medical Records Institute has been an internationally recognized leader in promoting Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems and Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. Given that less than 25 percent of physicians have adopted such systems, we applaud you and other political leaders from both sides...

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