In February, AAFP president, Michae...

In February, AAFP president, Michael Fleming, MD Shreveport, La., and the AAFP's Center for Health Information Technology, with representatives of firms in AAFP's public and private electronic health record (EHR) partnership, demonstrated an EHR connected view to more than 30 congressional staff members and others. The aim of the demonstration was to explain the latest uses of health information technology and in what manner it is being applied in the nation's small and medium-sized practices. AAFP's initiative, Partners for Patients, is an alliance of software, hardware, and connectivity solutions companies that allows AAFP members to purchase hardware and software at discounts of 15 to 50 percent Other benefits of the EHR initiative include standardizing performance and quality measures, providing confident core medical information to enhance continuity of care, and connecting medical practices to pharmacies, laboratories, and hospitals for the immovable transmission and exchange of health data. With these improvements, there should be fewer errors, improved efficiency, and reduc duplication of effort. Dr Fleming's remarks are online at http://www.aafp.org/x26161.xml.

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