| Next Step Toward Digitized Health Records
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"For all of modern medicine's advances, most physicians still rely on pen and paper to record and track their patients' medical histories.
Although doctors are often painted as being computer-averse, there are even bigger reasons why the digitization of medical records is still in its infancy: entering mountains of bulging medical charts into computers is daunting and expensive. Many of the systems that exist don't talk to each other. And while some patients want the convenience and safety of having all of their medical information in one accessible place online, that same prospect makes others worry about privacy.
Now, a for-profit company affiliated with the American Medical Association is offering up a near-term step toward wiring up at least some of the nation's archaic paper medical system. Medem Inc., today plans to unveil an Internet-based "personal health record" that patients can use to organize their family's medical histories, much as they might electronically manage financial records or bank accounts..."
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