State and federal agencies have pioneered many improvements in the healthcare system in order to improve access and affordability. At the forefront is the increasing drive to adopting electronic health records (eHR). There are both administrative and consumer benefits to adopting and mandating electronic health information and records which in some cases could be the difference between life and death. The administrative benefits of eHR between providers and payers are all well documented, and include electronic transaction cost savings, fraud prevention, etc. The consumer's benefits of eHR would include ease of information sharing during natural disasters and other public health emergencies, improving public safety, reducing medical errors, avoiding duplicative and unnecessary medical procedures and improving coordination of care among health care professionals.

IGI has been working with multiple state agencies to develop next-generation solutions for use today.