Bush's push for electronic medical records

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""CLEVELAND, Jan. 27, 2005-- President Bush called on doctors and hospitals Thursday to move their medical records from paper to electronic files, a change that he said would improve medical care while shaving significant sums from the nation's spiraling health care bill. Speaking at the Cleveland Clinic, Bush quoted health analysts who said that the efficiencies wrought by electronic medical records could reduce medical costs as much as 20 percent. Electronic records can "help change medicine and save money and save lives," he said. The clinic is helping to develop an information technology standard for medical records. Bush and other proponents say electronic records liberate doctors and other medical personnel from the crush of paper that contains most patient information. Electronic files give doctors instant access to potentially lifesaving information such as patients' medical histories, lab test results and the list of medications they have been prescribed."

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Subject: Re: Re: epidemiology of Conn's?To: hyperaldosteronism Date: Saturday, June 4, 2011, 8:52 PM

Bushed signed the "national database for medical errors" bill for tracking errors anonymously and a baby DNA bill, but not a full on database where all of our info is in one spot. That is Obama's baby