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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (523585)	10/26/2009 9:03:20 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583401

A paper-based system that discourages sharing of medical records accounts for 6 percent of annual overspending. None of the items you listed, except for the above, are addressed by the bills before Congress. The "paper-based system", of course, isn't what prevents the "sharing" of patient data. Every clinic I work in has access, electronically, to patient census data in the hospitals they work in. The problem is that the data must be tightly controlled under HIPAA and this nut takes some time to crack. Progress is being made, but realistically, we're 10 years, probably more, from having the massive "shared" databases everyone thinks is on the horizon.