[medinformatics] President Bush Proposes More Federal Funds for EMR

[Medical Informatics News]

Speaking today at a White House forum at the
Cleveland Clinic, which is helping develop an information technology
standard for medical records, President Bush proposed increasing federal funds to promote computerized medical
records. Bush strongly endorsed EMRs and said that*a standardized IT system for doctors’ offices and hospitals
would help save lives endangered by poor or incomplete record-keeping, prescription errors and other problems.

”Most industries in America use information technology to make their businesses more cost-effective … and the
truth of the matter is, health care hadn’t,” Bush said. “We got docs still writing records by hand.”

Imagine that!



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