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Kimberly Leonard, iWatch News

Excluded Groups Want In On Health Information Technology Funding

By Kimberly Leonard, iWatch News May 23, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Providers who were frozen out of a pool of $27 billion in federal funds to convert to electronic medical records are trying to fight back to qualify for the money and increase the size of the money available.

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