On Friday, the White House announced $975 million in state grants for health information technology adoption and training grants. Implementing health IT will help both hospitals and patients save money by eliminating duplicative tests and paperwork:

The White House says the awards will help make health information technologies available to more than 100,000 hospitals and primary care physicians by 2014 while helping to train thousands of people for careers in health care and information technology … The administration says around 15,000 people should get training.

The Wall Street Journal adds:

The money, which is just being released, provides $375 million to fund regional extension centers that will help health-care providers update their technology systems. Another $386 million will pay for new state-level information exchanges for health-care providers.

Broadband for America has a detailed list of the many benefits of Health IT, which you can read here.