New York State plans country's largest health information network
Via Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester):
The New York state Department of Health and a public-private partnership called New York eHealth Collaborative, or NYeC (pronounced "nice"), recently announced plans to spend $129 million in state and federal money to create a statewide network for electronic medical records, to be complete in 2014. Like the highways, they envision the network as a public utility that will allow medical providers anywhere in the state to view — with your permission — a list of your medications, any allergies and any recent X-rays or other tests that could help guide your care. The e-records network would be the largest in the country, dwarfing networks of other states and the Veterans Administration.
The planned statewide network, called Statewide Health Information Network for New York or SHIN-NY, is intended to serve more than 200 hospitals, thousands of medical practitioners and up to 20 million patients a year.
You can read more about NYeC here.
