A new study appearing in the journal Health Affairs confirms that the U.S. is falling behind other industrialized nations in the race to implement electronic medical records systems. Researchers at Johns Hopkins and Princeton studied data on health and technology spending in the U.S. and compared it with OECD data and found that the U.S. is at least 12 years behind other advanced states. The study also backs earlier work that has concluded that the U.S. gets less bang for its buck than other countries when it comes to healthcare spending. The research was led by Johns Hopkins professor Gerard Anderson.
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