Bush pushes high-tech health record keeping
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MINNEAPOLIS, United States (AFP) - Calling paper medical records an "antiquated" burden, US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) said that every American should have an electronic health care file within ten years.
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"Medicine ought to be using modern technologies in order to better share information, in order to reduce medical errors, in order to reduce costs to our health care system by billions of dollars," he said in a speech here.
"The system is antiquated," he said. "Within ten years, every American must have a personal electronic medical record."
Bush said the US government should have crafted technical standards by the end of the year for electronically storing and sending records like x-rays, and acknowledged concerns that personal data could fall into the wrong hands.
" atients will have control over their privacy. I fully understand there's an issue of privacy," said the president.
Bush also touted nuclear energy, coal, and hydrogen-cell technology as alternatives to oil, as soaring gas prices in the United States have fueled a recurring election-year debate about the US appetite for petroleum.
The president also called for permanently banning taxes on high-speed internet access known as broadband. |
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