Great real life story of EHR implementation at Information Week

Quick — how much federal-government money has been earmarked for electronic health records: $360 million? $3.6 billion? $36 billion? $360 billion? (Anyone for $3.6 trillion?)
We are in a time when incomprehensibly large dollar amounts are being tossed around like coins into a wishing well, and after a while the mind can start to blur a bit — is there really that much difference between $360 million and $3.6 billion? After all, it’s only a matter of one decimal point, right?

So it was quite a shock to hear about the EHR success story of Adena Health System in rural southern Ohio, where CIO Marcus Bost and his team have helped make the two-hospital, 300-bed system one of the most successful EHR implementations in the country.

To read the rest of this great article you can go to the Information Week website here.