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Health Affairs, 24, no. 5 (2005): 1118-1120 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.5.1118 © 2005 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Electronic Medical Records And Health Care Transformation

James M. Walker

Effective electronic medical care record (EMR) systems will make a critical contribution to health care transformation. However, we need to know more about the total costs of EMRs and the ways in which they will interact with existing health care systems to make compelling predictions about their clinical benefits or the savings they can enable.

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