Similarly, investing in electronic health records will stimulate integration and efficiency across the entire health-care system. Indeed, it could actually become a true system -- able to link diagnosis, drug discovery and health-care providers to insurers, employers, patients and communities.
Health-care research would become more informed and intelligent, and health-care providers could develop more advanced, individualized treatments with targeted pharmaceutical drug therapies. A $10 billion stimulus investment could generate more than 200,000 direct and indirect jobs. In addition, it could prove a major impetus for streamlining health-care costs.
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