Nurse Park

The promises made to President Obama by several healthcare industry groups to control healthcare costs were overstated by the president, some of the groups are saying. Many of the savings under discussion would employ information technology as a way to shave expenses.

A group of well-known healthcare IT vendors on Thursday launched a joint effort to educate physicians across the country on the benefits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The EHR Stimulus Alliance is designed to convince the nation’s 500,000 physicians that embracing healthcare IT will help meet President Barack Obama’s goals of improving healthcare quality, safety and efficiency.