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Why doctors still balk at electronic medical records
By Kevin Pho, US News & World Report, 10/1/2008
Despite the fact that we can complete our taxes and perform complex financial transactions digitally over the Internet, medical records have faced an impasse preventing a transition to the digital age. Patient charts are still paper-based in most doctors' offices across the country.
President Bush's goal was for every American to have an electronic medical record by 2014. Both presidential nominees Barack Obama and John McCain's health reform plans include language that modernizes our health information system.
Despite the advantages of computerized records — including reduction of errors, improved preventive care and potential health care cost savings — adoption of the technology remains distressingly low.
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