Yahoo! News - Bush Pushes Computerized Medical Records

CLEVELAND - President Bush (news - web sites) returned to the state that helped seal his re-election victory to pitch his second-term health agenda, urging greater use of computerized medical records and electronic prescriptions.

'It can save money and save lives,' Bush said Thursday at a forum at the Cleveland Clinic. He said medical record-keeping, where most prescriptions and many medical documents are still handwritten, lags that of other industries."

SOURCE:Yahoo! News - Bush Pushes Computerized Medical Records: "By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer




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