More than one-third of the nation’s 5,000 acute care hospitals now use
electronic medical records, and the share of primary care doctors using
them has doubled to 40 percent in the last two years, said Dr. Farzad
Mostashari, the Obama administration’s national coordinator for health
information technology.
The technology’s spread is helping “officials faced with events of
public health significance to know sooner, act faster and manage
better,” said Dr. Seth Foldy, a senior adviser to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
In February, public health officials in Michigan noted an increase in
electronic reports from clinical laboratories indicating E. coli cases
in several counties. Eleven patients were identified, including six who
were hospitalized.
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