The Electronic Medical Record ("EMR") is the optimum solution for achieving a uniform state-wide system which makes all appropriate personal health information and medical records available and accessible to patients and to their selected health care professionals at the point of care.

The administrative benefits of EMR between providers and payers include electronic transaction cost savings and fraud prevention. The consumer's benefits include ease of sharing information during health emergencies, reducing medical errors, avoiding duplicative and unnecessary medical procedures, and improving coordination of care among health care professionals.

Electronic patient records have proven to result in more efficient, less expensive and higher quality delivery of care services by centralizing information among providers, payers, employers and patients, as well as state health agencies such as Medicaid and immunization directories.