Source: TBTF News

In case you missed it, a March 14 article published in Time Magazine, "The Move to Digital Medical Records Begins in Tampa," talks about the "revolution" that Tampa Bay is staging to make health records in Tampa and St. Petersburg completely paper-free. Led by Mayor Pam Iorio, Congressional representatives, USF Health, Allscripts, and other health care professionals, PaperFree Tampa has the ambitious goal of digitizing every prescription and patient history written not only in the 10-county area surrounding Tampa and St. Petersburg, but also, eventually, in the rest of the country.

As reported in the Tampa Bay Technology Forum News, the PaperFree Tampa project stands on the shoulders of the regional leadership that succeeded in beating out 90 other markets in the country for a $3M grant from the Center for Community Health Leadership in 2007. David Schlaifer of Doctors' Administrative Solutions in Tampa spearheaded the winning grant application and coordinated leaders from the local health care community to win the award, which delivered free electronic medical records software to dozens of physician practices in the Bay area to help accelerate the adoption of electronic medical records here.