NextGenWeb recently attended a press conference hosted by the Health IT Now! Coalition entitled “Governors Urge Congress to Pass Health Information Technology”. Chet Culver, Governor of Iowa, Jim Douglas, Governor of Vermont, and Joe Manchin, Governor of West Virginia, spoke about the need for health IT legislation. The governors collectively declared that progress in every state is limited because the federal government has yet to establish health IT standards. The Governors agreed that standards must be set by Congress in order to finally allow care providers, insurers and state programs to adopt software and hardware systems that will allow every state to be interoperable with one another.

Click below to watch the Governor’s speeches