Vendors prepare for Obama's electronic medical records change

Lisa Hoover [1] wrote in her Sips from the IT Water Cooler blog on DaniWeb last week about a company that's ahead of the game as the nation waits for Obama's electronic medical records package. In fact, Obama signed the stimulus package into law yesterday and had this to say specifically about medical records modernization:

"Because we know that spiraling health care costs are crushing families and businesses alike, we are taking the most meaningful steps in years towards modernizing our health care system. It's an investment that will take the long overdue step of computerizing America's medical records, to reduce the duplication and waste that costs billions of health care dollars and the medical errors that every year cost thousands of lives."

This part of the legislation could have an impact on the company Hoover wrote about, but it could also have a huge impact on many document management vendors, especially as Hoover points out in her article, those that already have medical records management packages in place and can hit the ground running to help customers comply with these new regulations. This could be a huge boon for content management vendors in the coming years as those in the medical industry make the transition to electronic records.

For more information:
- see Hoover's post [2] on DaniWeb, and
- see this post [3] from December on FCM, "Could Obama's electronic medical records plan help ECM?"

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