Multi-hospital information network improves care for uninsured.
When people come to a hospital's emergency department for treatment, they don't bring their medical records with them. That means physicians and nurses either have to spend valuable time looking for information on the patients, or they have to run diagnostic tests, which may duplicate tests that have already been done somewhere else. Four health care organizations in New Haven, CT, have developed a solution to improve electronic access to health records and reduce the expense of duplicate tests.
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