“President Obama pledges $50 billion over five years to achieve the goal of electronic health records for every American by 2014.
Will electronic health records reduce the cost of health care? RAND Corp. estimated potential savings of $81 billion per year. This makes common sense to anyone who has more than one doctor, and the median Medicare beneficiary sees seven in a year! Patients find themselves carrying information back and forth, undergoing repeated tests, and sorting through conflicting prescriptions.”
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William Stead, The Tennessean, 11 February 2009
