Sidebar: Electronic Health Records at Work

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May 19, 2009,

Indian Health Service (IHS) serves 3.3 million Native Americans and 518 hospitals, clinics and other health-care facilities. ARRA provided $85 million for the IHS to use on health IT.
New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. has a $5.4 billion budget and serves 1.3 million New Yorkers and nearly 400,000 uninsured. It has used EHRs since 1991.
The Department of Defense's Military Health System and the Veterans Health Administration together serve 3.2 million personnel. They are currently building an enterprise EHR system to jointly serve their patients.
Kentucky's KY-CHILD is a Web-based application that allows electronic collection and submission of data related to birth certificates, and newborn metabolic and hearing screenings.
Tennessee's Medicaid system, known as TennCare, has an EHR system that serves a population of 1.1 million and 3,000 registered providers.

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