The Obama administration will direct almost $600 million from the federal stimulus bill to community health centers and to subsidies for electronic medical records, according to a report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
More than $500 million of the funds will be used to repair, rebuild or replace federally designated community health centers, which serve more than 17 million patients, about 40 percent of whom lack health insurance coverage.
As much as $88 million will go to healthcare facilities to "transfer old paper files to electronic medical records" and to upgrade the technology.
Read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's report on stimulus funding (note: this report is no longer available on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's website).