“Since taking office, President Obama has pledged to ensure that all U.S. hospitals become paperless within the next five years. The success of this mandate will hinge on its ability to move health IT vendors, hospitals and practitioners to the ideological center in support of electronic health record (EHR) interoperability standards, transparency, HIPAA compliance and affordable implementation.
From 44,000 to 98,000 hospital deaths each year are caused by preventable medical errors, representing the eighth-leading cause of death in the United States. These errors, however, can largely be eliminated through the adoption of an EHR and the subsequent clinical transformation the EHR enables.”
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Michael J. Doyle, Health Management Technology, September 2009
