VA Takes the Lead in Paperless Care

Computerized Medical Records Promise Lower Costs and Better Treatment

 

By David Brown

Washington Post Staff Writer

Tuesday, April 10, 2007; Page HE01

 

Divya Shroff, a staff physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in
Northwest Washington, stops what she's doing to answer her phone: It's a
doctor down the hall who needs help with a man struggling to breathe.

 

She calls up the patient's medical record on the computer at her desk and
scrolls through lab reports, doctors' notes, X-rays and EKGs, thinking out
loud with the medical resident, who is at the man's bedside.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/06/AR2007040601
911.html?hpid=sec-health

 

Tod Chernikoff, CRM

 

 


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