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Electronic Health Records: The $36 Billion Dollar Fiasco?

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The U.S. government has spent $36 billion over the last decade in an effort to turn handwritten medical charts into electronic records. Fred Schulte joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how all of that time and money has somehow made healthcare record keeping even less efficient. His story, “Death By 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong,” written with Erika Fry, is a join investigation between Forbes and Kaiser Health News.