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HHS's Efforts to Promote Health Information Technology and Legal Barriers to Its Adoption.

Publication: General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
Publication Date: 01-SEP-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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GAO-04-991R August 13, 2004

Studies published by the Institute of Medicine and others have indicated that fragmented, disorganized, and inaccessible clinical information adversely affects the quality of health care and compromises patient safety. Health information technology used to and...

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...(IT)--technology collect, store, retrieve, transfer clinical, administrative, and financial health information electronically--is seen as a promising solution to this problem. Technologies such as electronic health records (EHR) and bar coding of certain human drug and biological product labels have been shown to save money and reduce medical errors. However, only a small number of U.S....

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