Mississippi may be in the running to serve as one of a dozen test sites across the country for a new Medicare project that would provide incentives for private physicians to start using electronic health records.
Gov. Haley Barbour and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt met this week in Jackson to discuss the proposal with insurance providers, small practitioners and other health care professionals.
By June, the selected sites will be announced, and, within a year, all 12 are expected to be fully-immersed in the project.
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