Many of us remember searching frantically for a lost chart ormisfiled laboratory result in the wee hours of the morning aswe cared for a sick patient in the emergency ward, or requestingin vain the most recent note from a specialist about a patientwho returned to our office after a consultation. The ultimategoal of the electronic medical record — a technologicalsolution being championed by the Bush administration, the presidentialcandidates, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as well asGoogle, Microsoft, and many insurance companies — is tomake all patient information immediately accessible and . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Hartzband is an endocrinologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Groopman is a hematologist–oncologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School — both in Boston.
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