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Statewide medical records planned by Blue Cross, Shield of Massachusetts.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2004
By Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 21--Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Massachusetts plans to spend about $50 million to electronically link doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers in three Massachusetts communities, allowing them to share and access patients' medical records.
Blue Cross and more than 25 other insurers, hospitals, doctors and medical industry groups have formed a nonprofit organization with the goal of building a statewide electronic medical record system. Blue Cross, which has earned record profits in recent years, said it will donate $50 million to test the project next year in three cities or towns.
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