Health-e Connections

State legislatures around the country increasingly are learning how information technology can reshape the future of health care.

But states face numerous obstacles in their efforts to adopt health IT, including determining who pays for it and how the privacy of exchanged information is ensured.

Several states have created electronic health networks and are success stories other states can look to as they face this challenge. To find out more about those programs, as well as the benefits and challenges of health IT, check out Health-e Connections in the May 2007 State News magazine.