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Ritu Agarwal and Kislaya Prasad: Better IT does not guarantee good health care
Ritu Agarwal and Kislaya Prasad, The Examiner Dec 26, 2007 3:00 AM (707 days ago)BALTIMORE The vision of health information technology is enticing. In a world with electronic medical records, care providers in emergency rooms at the other end of the planet would be able to access our medical history instantly. Electronic prescribing systems would automatically transmit our prescription to the local pharmacy to be filled with cost-effective drugs that pose no risk of interaction, and telemedicine would give us access to the best specialists. In short, we are promised a safe and hassle-free world where as health care consumers we are empowered to take control of our own health conditions and have the knowledge and information necessary to make considered choices.
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