Digital records may improve health care

Digital records may improve health care: "Already some local doctors can can get laboratory results online, and they can read a summary of the records from a patient's hospital stay.
And by March, they will be able to order prescriptions for patients electronically.
The Taconic Health Information Network and Community held a conference Wednesday at the Culinary Institute of America to outline its efforts to allow local physicians and others in the health-care system to share information electronically. "