The federal government’s emphatic push into
health-related information technologies is likely to generate a wave of new work
for IT contractors.


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The deployment of health IT systems - most
notably electronic medical records that can be exchanged among patients,
doctors, specialists and other health care providers - is high on President
Barack Obama’s priority list. He has contended that digitizing all health care
records within five years will help the effort to revive the economy.


Indeed, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
of 2009 allotted $19 billion in health IT investments. And any major health
reform legislation that Congress passes this year is expected to add more
funding for electronic medical records exchange, sources say.

The
stimulus package contains funding for regional health IT extension centers,
which assist health providers across the country to adopt or enhance
EHRs.

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