Massachusetts has launched a new phase of its electronic medical records exchange system
State officials say doctors now have the ability to bring up a patient’s medical history with the click of button. Governor Deval Patrick participated in a demonstration Wednesday at a Boston hospital, where doctors retrieved a patient’s information from other health care organizations in real-time. The governor helped launch the state’s medical records sharing system in 2012 when he had his own records transmitted from Boston to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.
Massachusetts received $22 million from the federal government to development the health information exchange. Fifty-Five medical institutions are connected to it.
