“I would like to tell you that after some months of talking to doctors and researchers I understand what the future of electronic medical records will be. But I can’t.
Indeed, it is possible that when all is said and done, your family doctor may look back at the age of dusty, hard-to-read paper files in a steel filing cabinet and say: “golden age.”
It could be that the anticipated flood of electronic information to your doctor’s office is going to make family medicine worse for the physician but better for the patient. Consider the following examples.”
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Stephen Strauss, CBC News, 10 November 2009
