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Pilot Medical Records Program Could Cut Errors, Costs
POSTED: 7:08 pm CDT June 16,
2008
UPDATED: 7:12 pm CDT June 16,
2008
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okl. -- Oklahoma is one of 12 states and cities participating in a pilot program to modernize health care.The program will give doctors incentives to go from paper records to electronic record keeping.Organizers said this could help to speed up service, reduce medical errors and save hundreds of billions of dollars.
The state is getting a federal grant for the program and it should go online some time soon.
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