Missoula hospitals enter the electronic age of EMR’s

In 2004 President George W. Bush announced the ambitious goal of ensuring that most Americans have electronic health records by 2014. In his State of the Union speech last week, Bush reiterated that objective: “We will make wider use of electronic records and other health information technology, to help control costs and reduce dangerous medical errors.”

But even as Bush was busy preparing to deliver his annual address to the nation, investigators in Clackamas County, Ore., were busy trying to figure out what had happened to more than 360,000 such records that had gone missing.

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