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House committee approves major health IT bill

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The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved a major health IT bill today and sent it to the full House for action. The committee leaders who sponsored the Protecting Records, Optimizing Treatment and Easing Communication Through Healthcare Technology Act of 2008 (H.R. 6357) made significant concessions to privacy advocates and to those who use health information as they modified the bill approved in June.

The PRO(TECH)T Act aims to promote e-health records for all Americans by 2014, as President Bush called for in 2004. It establishes in law the technology standards activities that the Bush administration developed and would provide $560 million in grants and loans for health care providers, particular in small and rural practices and those serving the underserved, to acquire EHR systems.

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