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The future of electronic health records

The digitisation of medical records in the United States has brought benefits, but not everyone is content with how they have been implemented.
  1. Jeff Hecht

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Advances in medical imaging and the proliferation of diagnostic and screening tests have generated mountains of data on patient health. Digital information technology has seemed poised to revolutionize health care in the United States since 2009, when the Obama administration made the technology part of plans to revive a sinking economy. The US government has now spent tens of billions of dollars on putting patient information at doctors’ fingertips.

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Nature 573, S114-S116 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02876-y

This article is part of Nature Outlook: Digital health, an editorially independent supplement produced with the financial support of third parties. About this content.

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