CHIP employs technology to improve care for the uninsured

It was the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe that further affirmed the wisdom of Community Health Integrated Partnership?s electronic patient record initiative.

“Those records were lost,” Salliann Alborn, chief executive officer of CHIP and the companion Maryland Community Health System, a managed care organization, said of disaster-area patient medical records destroyed in the 2005 hurricane. “That really brought to mind to us another of the virtues of a system like this.”