Mississippi Medicaid to Offer Physicians Free Web-Based EHRs

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News On August 4, 2009, SharedHealth announced that the State of Mississippi will offer its web-based electronic health record (EHR) and health information exchange to physicians in the state at no charge. The goal is to better serve the state’s 600,000 Medicaid beneficiaries. The EHR system is expected to start operation by the end of 2009. The selection of SharedHealth is related to a request for proposal (RFP# 20090121) released by the Mississippi Division of Medicaid on December 10, 2008. Proposals were due by March 12, 2009. Proposals were . . .