Commissioners set to make health care digital: the goal is for widespread use of electronic records within a decade.(electronic health records)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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After years of lagging behind other industries, health care providers may finally be able to take advantage of modern information technology now that Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has chosen 16 commissioners to serve on the American Health Information Community. Leavitt will also chair the federally chartered commission, which will advise HHS on adopting and implementing health IT.

Along with President Bush, Leavitt and...

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