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How to Pay for Health IT Systems?

Federal stimulus funds are paying to build or expand systems enabling health care providers within each state to share patient information.  It's a tall order with good intention but how will state officials get all providers to implement, use and participate?  Are the incentive payments worth the costs of change for providers?

An iWatch News survey reveals concerns among state officials about how they will keep paying for the programs once the federal money runs out.  As states adopting a wide variety of different software for electronic health record exchange, how to get those different systems to talk to each other?

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