On the recordMarch 9, 2005
The Center For Information Technology leadership estimated that, if we move towards electronic health records, it could save about $78 billion a year, or 5 percent of the Nation's total annual healthcare cost. And in a time when so many businesses have seen their health care costs climbing, sometimes up into the double-digit amounts per year, it can do a great deal. ... Electronic prescribing, however, is another tool where doctors, at the moment they write the prescription, they can access that prescribing information.
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govinfo.gov
