Md. doctors first to try program to make health records electronic

Maryland doctors who swap paper for electronic medical records will be the first in the nation to be reimbursed under a federal pilot program.

“While the number of electronic health records around the country has proliferated, there?s been a reluctance among small- to medium-sized practices to embrace them,” Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt told a group of physicians Tuesday at Anne Arundel Medical Center.