Stimulus Bill Calls For Computerizing Health Care
Submitted by John Farrell on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 2:53pm
Dr. John Halamka, the chief information officer at Harvard Medical School and one of its teaching hospitals says the IT provision of the stimulus bill would boost the number of physicians who use computers in their practice and create 200,000 jobs. Dr. Halamka currently oversees 20,000 computers dedicated to health care.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99916019
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