Bringing EHRs to the desert. Grand Canyon State refuses to let IT fall through the cracks with its new private-public electronic health-record partnership.
While other states are only thinking about how they'll implement health information exchanges, Arizona is on a path to have an e-health infrastructure in place by 2010. The initiative is being driven by Gov. Janet Napolitano. "The reason why this issue is so important to the governor is because our health system right now is not sustainable," says January Contreras, left, the governor's health policy adviser.
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