There will be $19 billion of the Obama Healthcare Stimulus Package used for the improvement of information technology.  This will help to reduce the amount of medical errors, unnecessary tests and procedures and misplaced lab results.  Doctors will be able to cut back on record keeping staff and do away with thousands of paper files.  Learn more from this article by The Los Angeles Times.

Thanks to warnings embedded in the electronic health record, or EHR, Saver can monitor his patients’ prescriptions to avoid harmful interactions. In case of a recall, he can check the database in minutes to find out whom to notify.

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