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Senate proposes EHR fix for physicians, patients
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions unanimously recommended a measure today that would improve the use of electronic health records for the benefit of health care providers and patients.“This is some of the most important work that this committee has done — to call attention to the electronic medical record system being in a ditch,” Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said during an executive session. Alexander noted that President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative, a national research effort to support individualized treatment, “absolutely depends on electronic (Read more...)