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Electronic Prescribing Reaches Milestone

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | May 21, 2014

Surescripts, which bills itself as the country’s largest health information network, routed more than a billion electronic prescriptions in 2013.  The number represents a majority – 58 percent – of all eligible prescriptions in the United States, sent by 73 percent of all office-based physicians...

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Single-Payer Proponents Take To The Hill

Staff Writer | Government Health IT | May 22, 2014

Advocates for a single-payer “Medicare for all” health system are fanning out across Capitol Hill this week, lobbying members of Congress.  

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Why Doctors Still Use Pen And Paper

James Fallows | The Atlantic | March 19, 2014

The health-care system is one of the most technology-dependent parts of the American economy, and one of the most primitive. Every patient knows, and dreads, the first stage of any doctor visit: sitting down with a clipboard and filling out forms by hand.

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