long island hospital moves towards EMRs

North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, a network of 13 hospitals, has announced its intention to digitize its record system. The hospital hopes the new system will provide both a competitive advantage for itself and improved care for patients, mostly by better integrating records kept across the system. The estimated cost: $400 million. NYC's government has historically been a leader in encouraging the adoption of EMRs, but most of that has been in small private practices, nothing on the scale of a network like this.