The Office of e-Health Initiatives is the single coordinating authority for the exchange of electronic health information in Tennessee and works to improve the health of Tennesseans by ensuring providers have complete patient information at the point of care.
Surescripts, the nation's largest electronic prescribing network, is giving Tennessee a Safe-Rx Award as a Top 5 Most Improved State for e-prescribing in 2008. The award recognizes Tennessee's jump to #18 in the state-by-state rankings of e-prescribing activity.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)
provides funding to modernize the nation's health care system by catalyzing the adoption of health information technology. Read more.