The Academic Clueless

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Sun, 01/04/2009 - 22:53

In "Letter highlights hurdles in digitizing health records ", Jan. 1, 2009 the Boston Globe reports:

David Blumenthal, a Harvard Medical School professor and director of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners Healthcare System who advised the Obama campaign on the issue , said the debate over whether existing technology is good enough has only emerged recently, with the prospect of a huge national investment in electronic health records.

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