Tuesday, April 27, 2004

BUSH CONSORTS WITH SATAN

Now it is possible to imagine all of a person's health files stored securely on a computer file -- test results, lab records, X-rays -- accessible from any doctor's office. It is easy to imagine, yet our medical system is not there.

...Why rely solely on the doctor's brain to store that information? Computers could crunch the variables on a particular patient's medical history, constantly update the algorithms with the latest scientific evidence and put that information at the clinician's fingertips at the point of care.


--Hillary Clinton in The New York Times Magazine, 4/18/04

When it comes to patients' health records, the United States hasn't left the "buggy era," President Bush said Tuesday at a veterans hospital....

The president has set a goal of assuring that most Americans have electronic health records within the next 10 years....


--CNN, 4/27/04

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