Lake Regional Electronic Medical Records

The seven primary and urgent care and 14 specialty clinics of Lake Regional Health System are moving their medical records to a new electronic system this spring and summer to the benefit of patients. Pushed by new regulations in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, lakenewsonline.com reports hospitals and clinics nationwide are gradually making the transition. Lake Regional’s an early adopter of the requirement to show “meaningful use” of electronic health records by 2015.