Gov. Jim Doyle is putting $30 million in his budget to help get all health care providers in the state to switch from paper to electronic medical record keeping systems.
The initiative would “reduce the cost and improve the quality of health care in Wisconsin,” Doyle said at a news conference this morning at Dean Health System’s East Clinic.
Doyle said health information now is often incomplete and filled with errors, which compromises patient health. He cited statistics from the U.S. Institute of Medicine that found that up to 98,000 people in the United States die annually from medical errors.