PricewaterhouseCooper recently released projections that U.S. healthcare spending will represent one-fifth of the nation’s gross domestic product by 2019. The report, as outlined by an article in Computerworld, also shows that health providers spent $88.6 billion dollars on the development and implementation of electronic health records in 2010.

Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL) recently announced that 75% of the primary physicians in Vermont are signed up with VITL to begin implementing an electronic health record system. The success, the VT Digger reports, is due to a $7 million dollar federal grant, which helped VITL to create a regional extension center specifically for helping doctors convert to electronic records.

Ford Motor Company is exploring adding healthcare solutions to their in-car connectivity.