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We’re Running Out of Primary Care Physicians: What Are We Going to Do About It?

07/26/2010
By Lucy Dylan
We’re Running Out of Primary Care Physicians: What Are We Going to Do About It?

The country’s current health care reforms have underscored the country’s primary care physician deficit. By the time the reforms kick into effect in 2014, the majority of Americans will be insured. In Massachusetts, where all citizens must be enrolled in some health insurance plan, universal insurance has exposed the Commonwealth’s primary care shortage. The...
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Electronic Medical Record Use On the Rise

07/08/2010
By Lucy Dylan
Electronic Medical Record Use On the Rise

By 2014, each and every American will have an electronic medical record of their own. Electronic medical records (EMR) are “paperless paperwork,” or computerized copies of patient records, and the federal government hopes to make wide use of them to cut down health costs. The Obama administration’s health information technology program plans on...
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