While his comments on healthcare covered little more than two paragraphs in a speech of some 5,000 words, advocates of furthering IT in the field must have taken heart from his reiteration of his support for the EHR program, even if it was met with near silence from the gathered members of congress.
While the issue has yet to find mass public support, President Bush has repeatedly made calls for digitizing medical records, and in the last two years has established the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to promote the venture.
