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February, 2012
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Measuring the return from electronic health records is murky math, at best

“I recently flew into Charleston, S.C., to see how the Medical University of South Carolina was handling its electronic health record systems. I went Deep South because MUSC has had the Oacis medical record system in place since 1993 — it was the first hospital system in the world to buy one.
I went there to check out the system because all the hospitals in Montreal, along with Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa (not to mention almost the entire state of South Australia) either have or are about to use an Oacis system supplied by Canada’s Telus Health Solutions.”

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Stephen Strauss, CBC News, 3 December 2009

4 December 2009 | Categories: News | Country: Canada, United States | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada, EHR USA | Tag(s): Benefits, Hospitals, PACS
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