Front Range Hospitals Get Nod For Electronic Medical Records Efforts

Front Range Hospitals Get Nod For Electronic Medical Records Efforts

Three leading health-care providers in Colorado's Front Range region recently teamed up in an electronic health-record exchange program that will allow them to share data on more than a million Colorado residents, including Jacob. The three--Children's Hospital in Denver, Kaiser Permanente Colorado's physician group and Exempla Healthcare, which operates Saint Joseph and two other hospitals in Denver--have agreed to share their records on a secure network that will allow clinics, doctors' offices and hospitals to exchange data on common patients instantly, including lab reports, radiology images and medical history.

Unfortunately, programs like this are still a rarity. For starters, only about 10% of the nation's hospitals and less than 7% of doctors' offices have full-fledged electronic medical records. And those that have electronic records typically don't share them with others unless they're part of the same health system.

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