President Barack Obama has decreed that all medical files be electronic by the year 2013.
Mercy Medical Center Merced is ahead of the game by about four years.
By next week, the local hospital will have all its medical records on computers. Loretta Stuart-Edgerton, director of the health information department, said that with the old handwritten charts, data were input by hand and could only be looked at by one person at a time. ...http://ping.fm/MAnmj