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Article: Caring for the Chronically Ill: Information systems can help ease the complexities of preventing and treating chronic conditions.
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- Health Data Management
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Patients with chronic illnesses account for 75% of U.S. health care spending, and that percentage will grow as the population ages, according to an April report from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
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Health care organizations, which already are dealing with a shortage of nurses and other clinicians, are devising new ways to use information technology to improve the treatment of chronic medical ...