Dr. Johnathan Perlin, Under Secretary for Health for the Veterans Health Administration, discusses the problems that the electronic records system helps to solve.
The award-winning records system, according to Perlin, helps to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and repeated tests as well as avoidable complications (0:37).
July 10, 2006
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