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  • Many Hospitals Resist Computerized Patient Care

    04/07/2004 8:35:47 PM PDT · by neverdem · 40 replies · 834+ views
    NY Times ^ | April 6, 2004 | MILT FREUDENHEIM
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"/> April 6, 2004 Many Hospitals Resist Computerized Patient CareBy MILT FREUDENHEIM or years, technology has been held out as an important way to curb the scourge of medical errors. President Bush and Senator John Kerry have each called for a bigger commitment to computerization to reduce the 98,000 avoidable deaths a year that an eye-opening federal report in 1999 said might be caused by mistakes of doctors, nurses and other hospital personnel. Yet even now, despite pressure from large employers, unions and health care advocacy groups - and aggressive marketing by vendors -...
  • Sen. Clinton Proposes Health Care System

    01/13/2004 8:10:51 AM PST · by neverdem · 37 replies · 175+ views
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | Jan 12, 2004 | SARA KUGLER
    NEW YORK (AP) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to focus this year on improving health care, beginning with a proposal designed to modernize the sharing of medical information nationwide. The senator, who as first lady presided over a failed effort at health care overhaul, told a gathering of about 100 New York City health care leaders at a Manhattan hospital on Monday that the current system "often seems fragmented, redundant, inefficient and bureaucratic." "Americans need a new, modern, 21st-century version of health care delivery, based on the premise of information in the hands of the right people at the right...