New York City’s Mayor
Michael R. Bloomberg and Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Thomas R. Frieden recently announced
that NYC has earmarked $27 million to provide electronic health records (EHR) systems to 1,000 of the city’s
physicians by 2008. An additional $13 million will be contributed by community health centers participating in the
program.
The city expects that the EHRs will provide the DOH with more accurate and faster information on emerging pubic health problems and also improve care at community health clinics.
Last January, in his State of the City address, Bloomberg said he would launch a revolution in the city's
community health clinics by creating secure EHRs in community clinics and in the offices of doctors who practice in the
city’s poorest neighborhoods.
