Computerized medicine: good for quality, but not costs

Electronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a way to slow the rapidly inflating costs in the US healthcare system. The push for expanded medical IT has come from the top, with President Obama extolling its virtues and his administration making funding for EMR deployments part of its stimulus package. But many have pointed out that simply throwing computers at a problem isn’t a solution unless the software and practices are also in place to allow the medical community to leverage the technology efficiently.

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Computerized medicine: good for quality, but not costs

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