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CCH® BENEFITS — 10/17/08

Health Care Plans Lead Information Technology Movement

From Spencer's Benefits Reports: Health care plans are leading the health information technology (IT) movement, according to America’s Health Insurance Plan’s (AHIP) Center for Policy and Research. AHIP’s paper, Trends and Innovations in Health Information Technology, is based on telephone interviews with chief information officers and other health IT professionals at eight AHIP member health care plans, and found that plans are strongly committed to creating an interconnected health care system in which health information can be exchanged electronically.

AHIP found that health IT initiatives are being driven by four main goals:

For more information, visit http://www.ahipresearch.org/pdfs/CPRTrendsInHealthIT.pdf.

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