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NYT Magazine: "The Quality Cure?" - an interesting article

Thanks to ivaldes, reporting for Linux Medical News for this link.
There is an NYT Magazine in-depth article on different ways of looking at health care reform that take into account that rising health costs also yield more health benefits.
Health-IT is mentioned starting on page 6:
'...Many doctors still write prescriptions and keep records manually, and Cutler says that digitizing the health-care system would save considerable administrative expense and improve quality. It would minimize prescription errors, speed paperwork and make a patient's medical history portable. But the big kick is what information technology could do for the doctor's understanding of his own performance.

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