“Gordon, who chairs the House Committee on Science and Technology, said that a committee staffer had open-heart surgery and was also diagnosed with diabetes. The worker compiled a list of every condition he had and all the medication he was taking and put it on a card that he kept in his wallet. Later, he suffered a stroke, and medical personnel used the information on the card to help guide their treatment.”
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Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld, 26 September 2007
See also Health IT Interoperability Focus of House Committee Hearing in Government Technology.
