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[[healthvideo.com - NBC Digital Health Network]]
[[Female speaker] I'm just going to take your temperature and put your vital signs in.]
[[Robert Bazell narrating] The new way a doctor or nurse types in notes, medication requests, ]
[and views the entire medical history, including scans and lab reports.]
[[Male speaker] What does it tell you?]
[[Male speaker] It basically tells us almost everything I want to know about the patient.]
[[Robert Bazell narrating] The Obama Administration wants the whole country's medical system]
[to be electronic in 5 years.]
[[Obama] [January 8, 2009] This will cut waste, eliminate red tape, ]
[and reduce the need to repeat expensive medical tests.]
[[Male speaker] See the computers in the rooms?]
[which is totally electronic.]
[[Dr. Steven Corwin - New York-Presbyterian Hospital]]
[our medication errors went down by about 80%.]
[[Robert Bazell] In addition to their enormous benefit, ]
[electronic medical records have two big challenges.]
[and the other is the ability of different computer systems to talk to each other.]
[[sound of typing] [Robert Bazell narrating] There have been privacy breaches already,]
[hackers getting into hospital systems, doctors losing laptops, ]
[and medical staff looking at records they don't need to see.]
[Already strict laws protect medical privacy--paper or electronic--]
[[Lillie Coney - Electronic Privacy Information Center] How good is it to have a policy]
[to protect health information privacy if there are no consequences for those who ]
[break that faith with consumers?]
[[Dr. Steven Corwin] Ultimately, things have to connect up to one another. ]
[If you're at a Chase ATM, it works if you're a Citigroup customer.]
