“IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that St. Elizabeth Healthcare is connecting hospitals, clinics and physicians offices in Northern Kentucky in the state’s largest roll-out of electronic medical records to improve patient care and lower costs.
Today, only 1.5 percent of U.S. hospital systems have a comprehensive electronic records system putting St. Elizabeth Healthcare at the leading edge of nationwide efforts to modernize health care and meet the nation’s goal of providing every patient an electronic medical record by 2014. The system is expected to replace a warehouse full of paper-based records on more than 50,000 patients in the St. Elizabeth Healthcare system.”
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Medical News Today, 30 July 2009
