“THE Obama administration’s plan to spend $19 billion on electronic medical records has generated so much buzz you might think it was the biggest thing in health care since penicillin.
“We’ve got a long way to go” before digital health files are widespread, said Dr. Ashish Jha, an associate professor at Harvard who has been involved in several studies on such records.
But while policy makers, hospitals, doctors and technology companies debate the best ways to give every health care provider computer access to patient records, patients can’t help but wonder: What’s in this for me?”
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Walecia Konrad, The New York Times, 17 April 2009
