Health IT headway 'breathtaking'

Healthcare IT News: Health IT wasn’t quite in the dark ages in 2003 – but it sure was close.

“I was talking recently with a man who told me about visiting an endocrinologist 10 years ago,” said Cheryl Stephens, CEO of Community Health Information Collaborative, based in Duluth, Minn. “The doctor kept a little spiral-bound notebook in his top pocket that had a page for every patient, with tiny notes about whether this hormone had gone up or down, etc.

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