GMH Stands to Gain $5M: Subsidy Hinges on Electronic Health Records System

[Guam's] only civilian hospital could qualify for millions in federal subsidies if it successfully implements electronic health records systems.  According to Norman Okamura, faculty member of the Social Science Research Institute at the University of Hawaii, about $19 billion is set aside in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to build health information technology systems nationwide.

Okamura said if Guam Memorial Hospital successfully implements such systems, it could get $5 million over the next four years. He said this is because GMH is an acute-care hospital that has an average patient stay shorter than 25 days.