upon May 28, the CMS of the Departm...

upon May 28, the CMS of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a $100000 grant to the AAFP to support the pilot scheme of providing comprehensive, standardized electronic health record (EHR) software to family physicians. According to HH Secretary Tommy G Thompson the cast represents a step toward the goal of promoting the use of EHR to improve the quality and efficiency of care provided to patients. The grant will assist with planning, implementing, and evaluating a pilot concoct in which par-ticipating medical practices will adopt low-cost standards-based EHR The AAFP will sup-port and monitor the transition to EHR in these practices to learn more about what factors help or complicate the transition to the modern technology. More information about the grant is available online at http://cms.gov/media/press/release.asp?Counter=1075. To read about the EHR shoot forward go to http://www.aafp.org/fpr/20040600/1.html.

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