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$20B for electronic medical records

Through VentureBeat, I found the details on the $825-billion US stimulus plan (pdf).

In particular, I noticed the “$20 billion to jumpstart efforts to computerize health records to cut costs and reduce medical errors”. Digitalizing medical information represents a huge opportunity to both save lives and drastically cut booming health care costs for our aging population.

2009 may be the year that the digital revolution finally reaches health care.

Update: just saw an Independent article on how two questions halved death rate via Hacker News. Health care stands at a point where simple things make a huge impact, since we are so early in the learning curve of digital health care information.