肯塔基州政府成立HIT办公室

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Beshear creates e-health information office
Business First of Louisville


Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has created the Governor’s Office of Electronic Health Information within the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
The office was created to help foster the development of a statewide electronic health records system, according to a news release.
The Obama administration has called for the universal adoption of electronic health records by 2014, and the federal government is providing stimulus funding to states to accomplish the mission.
In order to receive the stimulus funds, states were required to create a department that would oversee the project. The new state office will serve as a single point of contact for federal and state agencies involved with the initiative. It also will work with Kentucky’s three regional health information organizations, health care practitioners, consumers, insurers and other parties involved in the electronic exchange of health records, the release said.
“Many of our health care providers practice independently or in small groups and are located in rural areas,” Beshear said in the release. “Our challenge is to bring together Kentucky’s stakeholders to assure that the development and use of health information exchange meets federally defined standards for privacy and security and to assure stakeholders that health information exchange is interoperable, sustainable and dependable.”