Center for Policy Research
Report
Electronic Health Records: Delivering the Right Information to the Right Health Care Providers at the Right Time
William M. Tierney
February 2011
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Introduction
Most of us consider health care to be a service business, because we think in terms of a patient who goes to the doctor to get some thing: advice, medication, devices, surgery, or physical therapy. The author argues that what patients really get, and health care practitioners really provide, is information. Ninety-eight percent of what those who practice medicine do is not the end result, the end service, but the overall process of getting there.
This report is sponsered by The Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture series, which is jointly sponsored by the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the Central New York Community Foundation, Inc. and is administered by the Center for Policy Research and The Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health.
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