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The state of electronic health records across Canada

“If the health records of Canadians were a music collection, we’d still be dealing with vinyl.
According to Canada Health Infoway — the not-for-profit organization funded by the federal government to move health records into the digital age — every year, Canadians visit doctors’ offices 322 million times. Around 94 per cent of those visits result in handwritten paper records.”

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Peter Hadzipetros, CBC News, 30 June 2009
Thanks to Neil Versel.

2 July 2009 | Categories: News | Country: | EHR: ,
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