When hospitals share patient records, emergency patients benefit, study suggests

Friday, January 24, 2014 - 12:00 in Health & Medicine

As hospitals and doctors' offices across the country race to join online systems that let them share medical information securely, a new study suggests that these systems may already be helping cut unnecessary care. Fewer emergency patients got repeated medical scans when they went to a hospital that takes part in a health information exchange,according to new findings.

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