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New England Journal of Medicine, February 9, 2010

The proportion of U.S. healthcare professionals and hospitals that have begun the transition to electronic health information systems is remarkably small, writes David Blumenthal, MD, in the New England Journal of Medicine. But without that system, neither individual physicians nor healthcare institutions can perform at their best or deliver the highest-quality care, he says.

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