Two good articles on the US healthcare crisis
Leisureguy.com
Observing that the nation’s doctors and hospitals operate a tangled web of incompatible forms and technologies, Thompson asked President George W. Bush to create a universal system of electronic medical records that would follow patients around the country, eliminate redundant treatments and, according to some estimates, trim billions of dollars from the nation’s annual health care tab.







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Tim Hite - Nov 1, 2009
I’ve seen this in my own healthcare system. Across a couple of states, we developed Cerner software in three different ways. Now we are having to work to standardize across the states.