Obama Proposes Digital Health Records
An anonymous reader writes “‘President-elect Barack Obama, as part of the effort to revive the economy, has proposed a massive effort to modernize health care by making all health records standardized and electronic.’ The plan includes having all conventional records converted to digital within 5 years. Independent studies are fixing this cost somewhere in the range of to 0 Billion, with most of the money going to paying and training technical staff to work on the conversion. Early government estimates are showing 212,000 jobs could be created by this plan.”
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