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Electronic Health Records May Help Customize Medical Treatments
Chances are your doctor has stopped taking notes with pen and paper and moved to computer records. That is supposed to help coordinate your care. Increasingly, researchers are also exploring these computerized records for medical studies and gleaning facts …
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English patients want electronic access to their records
English patients are willing to change doctors to access Electronic Medical Records (EMR), but just 16% of them currently have access, according to Accenture. Access this guide to aid you in facing the challenges, opportunities and key actions need to …
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Could electronic medical records add costs?
Electronic streamlining of medical records has been touted as a way to save money, against the backdrop of a health care system that is characterized as wasteful. Electronic medical records (or “Health IT”) are supposed to save billions of dollars by …
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