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President Obama recently pledged $19 billion to computerize America's medical records by 2014. Denmark has already made the transition. The country has a centralized computer database to which 98% of primary care physicians, all hospital physicians and all pharmacists now have access. While basic records go back to 1977, a detailed history is available of all "patient contacts" since 2000. A recent study by the Commonwealth Fund, a health-care-reform nonprofit, rated the country's health-care IT systems as the most efficient in the world, with computerized record-keeping saving Danish physicians an average 50 minutes...
Denmark boasts several advantages that have helped in the early adoption of electronic health records. It is small (population: 5 million) with a tech-savvy citizenry and a public sector-run health system. Trust in the government is high. Most crucially, when the health service established a National Patient Registry in 1977 - a system that required doctors to file patient visit details in order to be reimbursed for their work - the country unknowingly laid the groundwork for electronic health records by putting in place centralized record-keeping...
...there have been slipups. After the government decided to move away from paper records in 1999, a team of officials came up with a coding system that required doctors to insert information and notes in alphanumerical form. The system was never implemented and eventually abandoned in 2006 after physicians and nurses complained. Now, instead of a single system, record-keeping utilizes various compatible systems, linking networks established by regional health agencies. "What we found is that adoption of electronic health records must be done by evolution rather than revolution," says Jens Andersen of Sundhed.dk, the state health-care web portal...
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After amassing a 2-17 record in 2008, the women’s tennis team had nowhere to go but up. And this season, the Crimson (13-8, 6-1 Ivy) surely flew high, soaring to a share of the Ivy League Championship.Harvard struggled throughout the preseason last year, going 0-12 before the start of the Ancient Eight fixture. Other than a weekend sweep of Columbia and Cornell, the Crimson was unable to find its rhythm against league foes. Led by then-first-year coach Traci Green, the team fell victim to injuries, inconsistency in doubles, and struggles...