http://www.cleveland.com/wkyc/ or:
http://www.newsnet5.com/video/4134681/detail.html "Bush visit to push medical changes
Computerized records is administration goal"
http://www.cleveland.com/politics/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1106825416114980.xml ...Last May, President Bush told an audience at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that the VA does a "fabulous job" using health information technology.
The president is expected at the Cleveland Clinic today to talk about the benefits of such technology. Dr. C. Martin Harris, the Clinic's chief information officer, serves on two commissions related to Bush's goal of ensuring that most Americans have electronic health records within 10 years.
Such records would make a patient's medical information available to doctors anywhere, no matter where that information is stored. At the same time, patient privacy would be protected. Bush has established the position of national health information technology coordinator - currently held by Dr. David Brailer - to achieve his goal.
Hospitals in Northeast Ohio, including MetroHealth Medical Center and the University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic health systems, have some electronic record-keeping in place, but there's room for improvement...