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Health Care and Computers

Computers are becoming an integral part of modern health care. While large corporations rely on large databases to manage their "healthcare envornment", many physicians and nurses use PDAs (Palm OS or PocketPC) as "peripheral brains", replacing a ring of index cards of an earlier era. What are the implications of this change?

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