Transforming Health Care: The President’s Health Information Technology Plan

“By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs, and improve care.”

–President George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 20, 2004

• President Bush has outlined a plan to ensure that most Americans have electronic health records within the next 10 years. The President believes that better health information technology is essential to his vision of a health care system that puts the needs and the values of the patient first and gives patients information they need to make clinical and economic decisions – in consultation with dedicated health care professionals.