title: The message will be in the patient's receipt as New Brunswick prepares high-tech information system.
abstract: An effort to make the public appreciate the real cost of medical services has led to the development of an extensive medical-information and billing system in New Brunswick that uses a personal-information card. Likened to a credit card with unlimited credit, each has a magnetic strip with essential personal information with which to feed a province-wide computer system that eventually will link medicare, patients, doctors, prescription-drug programs and hospitals. The province hopes to have a pilot project running by year's end and then to introduce the system region by region.
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authors.lastname: Robb
mesh_terms: D005102:Health Expenditures; D007256:Information Systems; D008499:Medical Records; D009509:New Brunswick; D010355:Patient Identification Systems; D010865:Pilot Projects