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State pursues network for sharing patient data by 2010.
Crain's Detroit Business, July, 2007 by Begin, Sherri
Byline: Sherri Begin Southeast Michigan health care providers would be able to share information on patients in order to coordinate their care as early as 2010 under a new online patient information network. The state has committed $658,356 in grant funding to the Altarum Institute in Ann Arbor to lead planning for several regional health-information exchanges.
The grant is part of a $4.5 million project the state is funding to develop or expand online patient information programs. "We see this as a benefit for patients whose records will be able to follow them through technology,'' said James McCurtis Jr., assistant to the director of the Michigan Department of Community Health. Within two to three years, the state wants to establish local access to...
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