Cincinnati’s HealthBridge gets $14M from feds for health IT
Med City News – Nonprofit health information exchange HealthBridge has received $13.8 million in federal funding to help area health providers better utilize information technology.
The money comes from the $787 billion American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, better known as the stimulus bill, from early 2009, according to a statement from Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio. About $22 billion of that amount is slated to go towards helping physicians adopt electronic medical records.
