Bravo to Lawmakers for Passing a Vital Healthcare Provision

The Boston Globe
August 9, 2008

Lost in the media fanfare over the Massachusetts Legislature's eleventh-hour lawmaking frenzy last week is a healthcare provision with far-reaching benefits for patient safety. 

Part of the comprehensive healthcare bill, the provision will require all Massachusetts hospitals to adopt computerized physician order entry by 2012 as a condition of licensure...

These few lines of policy are the culmination of a four-year initiative, coordinated by the New England Healthcare Institute and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, that relied on a broad spectrum of healthcare researchers and decision-makers...

JOHN HALAMKA

Boston

The writer is chief information officer of CareGroup Health Systems Boston 

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