Maryland hospitals brace for e-health data projects - Baltimore Business Journal:

The chief information officer at Greater Baltimore Medical Center loses sleep over it. The CIO of MedStar Health will have two years — not the typical four — to complete it. And the leading tech guru of the University of Maryland Medical System isn’t looking forward to intruding on doctors’ time with it.

It’s the massive, multimillion-dollar project many Greater Baltimore hospitals are undertaking now — the installation of costly electronic medical record systems, known in the industry as EMRs. When complete, hospital executives want their doctors to be able to store all patient information online — part of the larger push by federal and state health care leaders to move to a digital health care record-keeping system...