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www.HealthcareITNews.com newS October 2008 ■ Healthcare IT News 57 State Alliance calls for state action on healthcare IT By BErnIE monEgaIn, Editor – The State Alliance for eHealth made up of governors and state officials across the country, is calling on states to support e-prescribing and to address medical privacy and security issues in order to boost healthcare IT. Healthcare IT and health information exchange are tools of transformation that could lead to improved care as well as savings, the State Alliance asserts in a 60-page report it released last month called “Accelerating Progress – Using Health Information WaShINgtoN Technology and Electronic Health Information Exchange to Improve Care.” Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee and Gov. Jim Douglas of Vermont chair the alliance. “We must harness our American ingenuity to bring about a technological revolution in America’s health care system,” said Douglas “HIT and electronic HIE are essential tools in states’ efforts to control costs and improve health care in the United States. ” “The United States spends more per capita on health care than any other developed country in the world, but we fail to achieve the results in terms of health outenable cross-state e-health. ■ Engage consumers to use HIT in comes and access to services that our citizens deserve,” said Bredesen. managing their health and healthcare. ■ Develop workforce capacity to Privacy and security rank No. 2 on the alliance’s list of recommendations support electronic HIE efforts. for state action. The top recommen“The State Alliance recognizes dation is to provide leadership and e-prescribing as a gateway to other support for e-health efforts in each Phil Bredesen advances in e-health,” the alliance state, especially on e-prescribing. wrote. “ Therefore, the State Alliance calls The others are: on states to lead these efforts and take action ■ Promote the use of standards-based, to drive adoption of e-prescribing.” ■ interoperable technology. 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Martin Harris, MD, chief information officer and chairman, Information Technology Division, Cleveland Clinic; ■ Kevin Hutchinson, president and CEO, Prematics, Inc.; ■ Charles Kennedy, MD, vice president for health information technology, WellPoint, Inc.; ■ Michael Lardiere, director, health information technology and senior adviser, behavioral health, National Association of Community Health Centers; ■ Stephen Ruberg, senior research fellow, Eli Lilly & Company; ■ Lisa Simpson, professor, University of Cincinnati, and director, Child Policy Research Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital; and ■ Paul Tang, MD, vice president and chief medical information officer, Palo Alto Medical Foundation. ■ MoRe At HealthcareITnews.com e Connect: AHIc 1008 l Redeﬁning medical technology. Professional Services after the sale At Howard Medical, our best services are discovered after the sale. 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